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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Power consumption disaster with AMD open source drivers</H1>
<B>AL13N</B>
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<I>Wed Jan 30 07:45:00 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>Op woensdag 30 januari 2013 06:29:08 schreef Mustafa Muhammad:
><i> On 01/30/2013 02:01 AM, AL13N wrote:
</I>><i> > Op woensdag 30 januari 2013 00:57:44 schreef Mustafa Muhammad:
</I>><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> >
</I>><i> > I might be mistaken, but i think there is work going on to make this
</I>><i> > happen... if it does, it'll need some manual intervention though...
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > (but unsure on this), we'll have to see...
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</I>><i> Anything is OK, manual intervention or completely manual setup is OK,
</I>><i> just don't leave us in the cold by only supporting xorg 1.13
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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
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