2010/6/30 Donato Capitella <[email protected]>: > I am writing to point out an issue I've been having for a while and > that I have now been able to relate to the ATI open source driver. My > ATI card is: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570. > > The problem is that when using the open source driver the CPU/computer > temperature gets higher (about 10 °C higher) than when using the > propietary driver. However, I can't use the propietary driver on my > favourite distro and, what's more, I get far better performances with > the open driver(complimenta to whoever has been working on it!). > > Now, I'd like to know if this is a known issue and if I can somehow > help to solve it.
Just Google&read about power management. If you use DDX, check for xorg.conf options. However the most advanced power management comes with 2.6.35 kernel (engine, memory, voltage). -- Rafał _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
