Frame Buffer Power Management / was: Re: The ati petition

[Patrick McFarland]

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 00:45:42 +0200, Roland Mainz
<roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> s/X/Xorg,Xfree86/ ... Sun has fully functional power managment for their
> own graphics cards (search http://docs.sun.com/ for "FBPM" (="Frame
> Buffer Power Management")) for their own cards.
> The question is whether their implementation can be ported to Xorg...

I missed the beginning of this discussion... why isn't power
management provided by many drivers?



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