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

Wed Jan 30 07:55:40 CET 2013

On 01/30/2013 09:45 AM, AL13N wrote:
+> 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
+I know the problem is AMD, but hoped the community can offer a solution 
+to us (as it always do), I don't require a good VGA card so nowadays I 
+only buy laptops with integrated Intel graphic chip, and for heavy 
+gamers I think NVidia is better (but I don't recommend it, I still have 
+a feeling to AMD, they were always better in Performance/Price)
+