[Mageia-dev] Power consumption disaster with AMD open source drivers

Wed Jan 30 07:45:00 CET 2013

Op woensdag 30 januari 2013 06:29:08 schreef Mustafa Muhammad:
+> On 01/30/2013 02:01 AM, AL13N wrote:
+> > Op woensdag 30 januari 2013 00:57:44 schreef Mustafa Muhammad:
+> >> Hi, I reported a bug because open source driver for AMD cards reduced my
+> >> laptops batter life to half:
+> >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8891
+> >> Please either implement the solution (shipping two xorg-server packages
+> >> and choosing from them during install), or extend the life of Mageia 2
+> >> to 5 years (or at least 3), nobody can keep using Mageia to kill his
+> >> battery life.
+> >> I know I asked about this before but it is critical.
+> >> Regards
+> > 
+> > I might be mistaken, but i think there is work going on to make this
+> > happen... if it does, it'll need some manual intervention though...
+> > 
+> > (but unsure on this), we'll have to see...
+> 
+> Anything is OK, manual intervention or completely manual setup is OK,
+> just don't leave us in the cold by only supporting xorg 1.13
+
+i am not certain, but i believe i have heard this.
+ I too suffer from this problem, even though the real problem is AMD/ATI 
+behaving cruelly and not suppporting their slightly older hardware
+