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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Power consumption disaster with AMD open source drivers</H1>
<B>AL13N</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Power consumption disaster with AMD open source drivers">alien at rmail.be
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<I>Wed Jan 30 00:01:15 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>Op woensdag 30 januari 2013 00:57:44 schreef Mustafa Muhammad:
><i> Hi, I reported a bug because open source driver for AMD cards reduced my
</I>><i> laptops batter life to half:
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8891">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8891</A>
</I>><i> Please either implement the solution (shipping two xorg-server packages
</I>><i> and choosing from them during install), or extend the life of Mageia 2
</I>><i> to 5 years (or at least 3), nobody can keep using Mageia to kill his
</I>><i> battery life.
</I>><i> I know I asked about this before but it is critical.
</I>><i> Regards
</I>
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...
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