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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to save a change to radeon power profile
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:18:05
Message-Id: 50A8ED8B.4060300@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to save a change to radeon power profile by Thanasis
1 on 11/18/2012 04:13 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
2 > on 11/18/2012 02:37 PM Mick wrote the following:
3 >> I would like to check the difference between the power management profile
4 >> settings of 'default' and 'auto' for my radeon card. I can change it from
5 >> default with:
6 >>
7 >> # echo auto > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
8 >>
9 >> # cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
10 >> auto
11 >>
12 >> but, upon reboot it has reverted back to 'default' :-(
13 >>
14 >>
15 >> I looked under sysctl but can't find anything. How can I set the profile to
16 >> 'auto' to survive between reboots?
17 >
18 > create a script in /etc/local.d as root and make it executable :
19 >
20 > cd /etc/local.d
21 > cat > set_radeon_to_auto
22 > echo auto > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
23 > (CTRL-D)
24 > chmod +x set_radeon_to_auto
25
26 Correction: the name of the script must end in .start
27 like:
28 set_radeon_to_auto.start

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to save a change to radeon power profile Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>