I think it is totally ok for a driver in development to not support power management until "it is done".
But it IS very bad idea to ship this not-ready driver to the users for a publisher like Ubuntu that targets a general audience. It just gives a bad user experience to thousands. And Ubuntu is not ashamed of shipping proprietary binary drivers, so for the nVidia drivers this would be very useful to continue shipping the binary driver until Nouveau does power management well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/858265 Title: No support for power management Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: With Ubuntu 11.10 beta, the Lenovo T61 with Nvidia gpu chipset NV86 runs hot and has bad battery live. As 'top' shows no evidence for unusual cpu load, I tink this is due to exceptional gpu load in idle or bad gpu power management. On ubuntu versions using the nvidia binary driver the machine stays cold and fan off almost any time on idle. I know nouveau is not really finished but until it is it should not be the default driver as that would give a very bad user experience. So I'd liked to file this bug against the oneiric distribution but ended up here. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/858265/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
