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

[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