How to change radeon power state

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Mota Leite
<daniel at motaleite.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 21:09:31 -0400, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Daniel Mota Leite
>> <daniel at motaleite.net> wrote:
>> > [   12.359671] == power state 1 ==
>> > [   12.359726]  ui class: performance
>> > [   12.359824]  internal class: ovrdrv
> (...)
>> > [   12.360442] == power state 2 ==
>> > [   12.360497]  ui class: none
>> > [   12.360594]  internal class: none
> (...)
>> >         As you can see, the driver choose the performance profile, but
>> > that one is limited to 400MHz, half of what this card can do. Of
>> > course i want to be able jump the GPU to 800MHz. So is there any easy
>> > way to choose the power state 2 instead of power state 1?
>> We'll probably need to add a quirk for your card.  Can you send me the
>> output of lspci -vnn for the GPU?
>
>
>         Please note that the original card firmware had all powerstates
> the same, i had used rbe (http://www.techpowerup.com/rbe/) to change then
> to the current frequencies. In that app, the powerstate 1 is called
> battery and the powerstate 2 is called performance.
>
>         I can switch the two and reflash, but to me seems logic that one
> can manually choose what powerstate to use if needed, just like the
> powerlevels (excluding the middle powerlevel problem)

You'll need to fix the power state to be flagged as performance.

Alex

>
>         Here is the output:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV 630 XT AGP [Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP] [1002:9586] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:0028]
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
>         Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>         I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
>         Memory at fbf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Expansion ROM at fbe00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
>         Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
>         Kernel driver in use: radeon
>
> Thanks in advance.
> higuita
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