Talk:How to make use of Graphics Chips Power Management features
Experimentally, it seems that rovclock determines the maximum frequency, and "DynamicClocks" tells the chip to a lower frequency when possible. They are thus complementary. --Thinker 18:59, 27 Oct 2005 (CEST)
show current power state with fglrx?
Switching power states using aticonfig
seems to work fine. Seems, because I can't really see in which state the ATI chip is currently in. Or can I?
--spiney 14:40, 20 Nov 2005 (CET)
You can (destructively) check whether it's in a specific state by trying to switch to that state. If it's alredy there, it will give an error. If not, it will switch and (on my machine) cause a brief screen blink. Indeed, brilliant engineering.
--Thinker 15:32, 20 Nov 2005 (CET)
aticonfig and Xorg.0.log don't match
I was testing this PowerPlay business and I saw that aticonfig --lsp outputs:
core/mem [flags] --------------- 1: 105/122 MHz [low voltage] 2: 209/182 MHz [low voltage] 3: 297/230 MHz [default state]
But Xorg.0.log reports that the states are:
(II) fglrx(0): POWERplay version 3. 4 power states available: (II) fglrx(0): 1. 297/230MHz @ 60Hz [enable load balancing] (II) fglrx(0): 2. 105/122MHz @ 60Hz [low voltage, enable sleep] (II) fglrx(0): 3. 250/230MHz @ 60Hz [thermal diode mode] (II) fglrx(0): 4. 209/182MHz @ 60Hz [low voltage]
Am I the only one that think this is kind of odd? I'm using a R52 with a X300 card. Omarkj
I can confirm I have the same values on the same hardware. Also, it seems rovclock can't read the correct speeds. It reads values well over 400MHz. --Micampe 14:11, 2 Dec 2005 (CET)