On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Til Schubbe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > my computer is running 24/7. Normally there's nothing difficult to > do for the graphics card so the built-in motherboard-graphics card > is sufficient. > > Sometimes I need some more graphics-power. In that case I'd like to > turn on the PCIe graphics card, run a 2nd x-server on it and some > power-consuming app (game) on that 2nd x-server. Finished with that > app I want to stop the 2nd x-server and turn off the PCIe graphics > card again. > > Running the PCIe graphics card (e.g. Radeon 4670) all the time > would be a waste of energy and would make the fans run quicker and > louder. > > Can I turn off (and on) a PCIe graphics card while the computer is > running? >
The feature is work in progress and you can read about it from http://airlied.livejournal.com/ > If that's the wrong place to ask this, please point me to the > right direction (perhaps the kernel-ML?). > > TIA > Til > > PS: The computer is running Debian Lenny. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
