OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20986/Improving_Linux_GPU_Power_Management Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:16:54 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Sod the power management... http://www.osnews.com/thread?349228 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349228 ...my laptop's 6 years old and uses 1.21 Gigawatts a minute anyway. Right now I'll settle for a driver that doesn't leave artifacts all over the screen whenever I scroll in Firefox, or make X fall over like a sack of shit with the slightest breath of wind whenever I'm attempting to do anything requiring 3D or video acceleration.

/Sorry, I know I'm a bit OT, but this feels a bit like rodding the drains while the house is on fire. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Havin_it) Comments RE: Sod the power management... http://www.osnews.com/thread?349231 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349231
...my laptop's 6 years old and uses 1.21 Gigawatts a minute anyway. Right now I'll settle for a driver that doesn't leave artifacts all over the screen whenever I scroll in Firefox, or make X fall over like a sack of shit with the slightest breath of wind whenever I'm attempting to do anything requiring 3D or video acceleration.

/Sorry, I know I'm a bit OT, but this feels a bit like rodding the drains while the house is on fire.


The work Matthew is doing isn’t instead of improving graphics support, it’s as well as. While he works on power management, others are working on graphics drivers, memory managers, X improvements, etc… Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Beta) Comments It is a worthy goal http://www.osnews.com/thread?349297 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349297 While I would certainly like to see better drivers as well this is nice for those whose chips support it as battery life under Linux is not near what it is on Windows. It is getting better but we are not there yet. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JPisini) Comments RE[2]: Sod the power management... http://www.osnews.com/thread?349352 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349352 I disagree with both remark of GPs:
1) Parent's remark: the manpower is limited and it's not like there are thousands of people working on 3D acceleration/video, everyone counts.
So the GP is right that if he had worked on something else, this 'something else' would have improved faster, he is of course wrong in that everybody is free to work on whatever topic.

2) GP's remark: GPU's power isn't something to dismiss: many people don't care about their videocard's performance (because they don't play 3D games especially not on their laptop), but they do care about the time that their laptop can stay up on battery though.. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (renox) Comments