Hot damn!
I already had the ability to undervolt the GPU. ATI's newest drivers, which just came out the 11th or so, enable the PowerPlay powersaving states. Not only the one state I keep seeing in windows, but an even lower one!
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=313&num=1
And the best part - it doesn't react to the AC plug. Which means I can keep it undervolted at all times and totally avoid the annoying fan noise. When I feel like doing graphically intensive things... it's only a quick command. I might even write in some sort of e17 module to handle this for me.
This has been a great day. The first time I setup linux on this thing, it took me forever to get every little thing working. I spent 8 hours doing it today and I'm nearly finished. Most of that time I was trying to see if I could use a widescreen resolution with the framebuffer... I found a neat tool called vbetest, but it claims my card doesn't support 1680x1050. I guess widescreen is impossible outside of X server.
I have a few days of work ahead of me, for sure, but I feel good. I have a few leads on getting some of the buttons to work, I have to undervolt the CPU (ugh), fix my touch-scroll (it's hella fast), and some other things I'm sure.
I already had the ability to undervolt the GPU. ATI's newest drivers, which just came out the 11th or so, enable the PowerPlay powersaving states. Not only the one state I keep seeing in windows, but an even lower one!
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=313&num=1
And the best part - it doesn't react to the AC plug. Which means I can keep it undervolted at all times and totally avoid the annoying fan noise. When I feel like doing graphically intensive things... it's only a quick command. I might even write in some sort of e17 module to handle this for me.
This has been a great day. The first time I setup linux on this thing, it took me forever to get every little thing working. I spent 8 hours doing it today and I'm nearly finished. Most of that time I was trying to see if I could use a widescreen resolution with the framebuffer... I found a neat tool called vbetest, but it claims my card doesn't support 1680x1050. I guess widescreen is impossible outside of X server.
I have a few days of work ahead of me, for sure, but I feel good. I have a few leads on getting some of the buttons to work, I have to undervolt the CPU (ugh), fix my touch-scroll (it's hella fast), and some other things I'm sure.
