On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:06:57PM +0800, Zhi Li wrote: > All, > > I'm working in a project which study energy saving on PCs. I saw a > strange thing which was opposite to my intuition: when PC working on > graphic mode, it would be more energy saving. > > When in graphic mode, on my PC, it is 52w; when I switched to terminal > mode(on linux alt-ctrl-1), it is 55w.
X knows how to program power-saving features in your graphics card. If you're using a VGA text console, the kernel doesn't. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
