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From: Cliff Rowley <cliffrowley@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Power saving
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 18:47:12
Message-Id: 90fac657050505114728b989ee@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Power saving by Bret Towe
1 On 5/5/05, Bret Towe <magnade@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > perhaps you should try the patch item here: http://www.muru.com/linux/dyntick/
3 > its possable that the HZ in the kernel is to high for your comp and it never
4 > gets to sleep as much as it use too
5
6 Oh nice, I'll have a look at that :)
7
8 > another thing to keep in mind is perhaps your video card isnt entering
9 > a low power state
10 > not that you can do much about that unless you want to go add some
11 > code to xorg ;)
12
13 Oh now there's something I hadn't thought of. I'm using the built in
14 Xorg ATI drivers, and not the official ATI drivers .. maybe that's the
15 problem. I'll try the ATI drivers anyway and see, just in case :)
16
17 Thanks .. <3 you guys ;-)
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