radeon vs radeonhd drivers

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Nov 11 11:02:00 PST 2008


On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Matthias Hopf wrote:
>On Nov 10, 08 22:15:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Never mind, the answer is yes, monitor powerdown works using the radeon
>> driver, but doesn't using the radeonhd driver.
>
>radeonhd does support DPMS, it should just work (TM).

Here, we don't honor that trademark unless its capitalized. :)

Anyway, where is (url to sub) the radeondh list?

>Maybe check on the radeonhd mailing list, you're more likely getting
>support over there. If you're running on git, you might want to think
>about reporting a bug in bugzilla.

No git, x is straight F8.  Kernels I bleed from, copiously at times, currently 
2.6.28-rc3 with a patch to control the wilder swappiness which seems to be 
working fine.

>Matthias

Thanks Matthias

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