Michael at Phoronix was asking if anyone has managed to get Powerplay to work on XP on an MBP C2D as part of his efforts to help get the ATI developers to look at this. I don't have XP or Vista installed so I can't answer this -- anyone given it a try?
thanks, Sheer On 6/3/07, Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've posted on Phoronix and asked Michael Larabel there, who seems to > have some access to the ATI developers, to see if they can respond to > the issue. He is trying to help and wants some X logs which I will > send him. Others who want to get involved go to: > > http://www.phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3130 > > Stan, sorry I can't help you much regarding the iSight. I've > essentially stopped using Linux on my MBP for various reasons (so I > never tried installing 2.6.22). First, I can't seem to repartition it > to setup a shared partition so all my data is in OS X which means > there's very little to do in Linux. I could wipe my linux partition > and then maybe OS X would be happier repartitioning but I'm not that > motivated to put too much time into it now because when I'm in Linux > the fans seem to run at a much higher speed which worries me and also > the rediculous battery life detracts from one of my attractions to > this laptop. I've been waiting, perhaps naively, for ATI to finally > fix this issue before putting time into getting linux setup the way I > want it. If I get around to upgrading and find any way to fix the > problem I'll let you know. > > I'm not sure how much of the power problems are related to the fglrx > drivers but considering how much better the frist rev MBPs seems I > would guess a fair amount. Has anyone tried spending some time with > powerTOP on a C2D system? Most of the discussion about this in the > past was about rev 1 MBPs. > > cheers, > Sheer > > > On 6/3/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 03/06/07, Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've submitted "Mobility Feedback" on AMD/ATI's webpage for this > > > several times with no apparent success. AMD seems ot have a policy of > > > not direclty supporting laptops because they say manufacturers should > > > but I'm sure apple won't help with this. It might be good if others > > > also try to submit the same bug/feedback in the hope of getting some > > > of the developers attention -- this has been around for a long time! > > > If anyone has the energy calling AMD directly and trying to get a > > > manager on the phone is probably not a bad idea. > > > > > > Sheer > > > > over the past couple of months, i've submitted reports of POWERplay not > > working on my MBP C2D several times. i wonder if the ATI developers have > > simply been told to ignore these requests. either way, i'm going to start > > phoning them. good idea Sheer. is anyone else willing to phone them? > > -Nick > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
