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

[AL13N]

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