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GNA

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Registered: 2011-02-15

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[SOLVED] How should I understand this ATI wiki?

Hello,
I'm trying to reduce my power consumption and found this article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ati#Powersaving
But I'm not sure how to understand this:
I enabled KMS.
First it says the power saving feature is disabled by default. Then it tells me I should use "sysfs" to change that. I don't have any application with that name, wikipedia tells me that its an virtual file system and there is no mention of "sysfs" anywhere in the wiki except this article. To confuse me even more, it tells me in the next passage that I should either use the sysfs interface that should be present by default because I use a recent version, or use the (unsupported) [radeon] repo.

Now I'm confused.

Also it doesn't mention how to check if it works correctly, so if anyone did this before, please tell me how I should understand this.

Thanks for your help

Last edited by GNA (2011-04-05 13:55:04)

stqn

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Re: [SOLVED] How should I understand this ATI wiki?

Just look at the code blocks on that wiki page: "echo blah > /sys/blah...". That's what you're supposed to be doing. The "sysfs interface" is what you see in /sys.

GNA

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Re: [SOLVED] How should I understand this ATI wiki?

ah, so I can skip this whole block if my kernel is newer than 2.6.35. That could be stated clearer thx 4 help

Inxsible

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Re: [SOLVED] How should I understand this ATI wiki?

ah, so I can skip this whole block if my kernel is newer than 2.6.35. That could be stated clearer thx 4 help

Well its a wiki. Feel free to correct it.

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