Fan control

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Martin <xorg-driver-ati at schwier.cc> wrote:
> AFAIK this "powerplay" feature is not yet implemented. I would
> appreciate if it would appear soon in the open source drivers as I think
> it is an important feature for notebooks. My unthrottled radeon card
> consumes much more energy and makes much more noise so I have to use
> fglrx (which still doesn't work with xserver 1.5)
>
> Perhaps some developer could tell us if and when we can expect the
> powerplay feature?

I have some experimental testing code in my personal git tree:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/xf86-video-ati/log/?h=agd-powerplay
But due to limitations in X, there's no clean way to change the power
mode on the fly.  I'm playing around improved powerplay support for
radeon kms.

Alex