Call aticonfig from power.sh [Enhancement]

[John Pham]

An option to call aticonfig --set-power=1 --effective=now from /etc/acpi/power.sh when on battery should probably be added- causes dramatic improvements in battery life (from 2 hours to 3)

[Jeroen Maris (jealma)]

I agree. I just encountered the powerTOP tool from Intel (www.linuxpowertop.org) and my battery went from 3 hours remaining to 3.6 ours remaining, after using "aticonfig --set-powerstate=1". Also it would be nice that this could be a default setting in the powersave profile if one uses an ATI card.

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

It is possible to get the desired behavior by editing this file:

  /etc/default/fglrx

[Bismark (bismark-foofus)]

Laurent: I don't have that file. What is it's format and what package(s) install it?

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 03:36 +0000, Bismark wrote:

> Laurent: I don't have that file. What is it's format and what
> package(s) install it?

It belongs to package xorg-driver-fglrx:

Package: xorg-driver-fglrx
Maintainer: Aric Cyr <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: fglrx-installer
Version: 8.42.3-1

I created this package myself from the driver that I downloaded from
ati.amd.com.

--
Laurent Bonnaud.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

The /etc/default/fglrx file is now included in the official xorg-driver-fglrx Ubuntu package
Source: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (2.6.24.9-10.28)
Version: 1:7.1.0-8-02+2.6.24.9-10.28
Therefore it will be in hardy and this bug can be closed.