AMD 880G and HD4250

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Franck <laplagne at ulukai.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I hope to be in the right place :
>
> I put a temperature sensor on a northbridge/HD4250 and state this : 57.5°C in
> graphic mode as console mode with the driver R880.
> I did the same but with the closed source driver and state this : 43.7°C in
> graphic mode, and 57.3°C in console mode.
>
> Here is my questions:
> *I guess I have something wrong in my conf with R880 driver in graphic mode, but
> don't know what. Any idea?
> *I would like to know (and I don't know if it's the good place for this
> question) if there is a graphic driver to configure (is there a way to) in
> console mode?

THe closed source driver has better power management at the moment.
See the power management section of this page:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
for more on configuring lower power states in the open source driver.

Alex

>
> Thanks for your attention in advance,
> Franck.
>
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