I've just put the RadeonHD driver on my laptop for the first time and things aren't doing badly. Two things:
- there's a lot of noise in the video output, on the laptop panel at least. I took a screenshot and the noise does not exist there; zooming in on areas of colour reveals the noise is a constant pattern in the background. This does not happen with the fglrx driver.
- any power saving modes? RadeonHD's power usage puts the laptop up to 24 watts versus 14 when fglrx is in its best power-saving mode. Is there a utility to set the clock speed of the chip anywhre?
All in all a very interesting experience.
Thanks,
Cameron
- there's a lot of noise in the video output, on the laptop panel at least. I took a screenshot and the noise does not exist there; zooming in on areas of colour reveals the noise is a constant pattern in the background. This does not happen with the fglrx driver.
- any power saving modes? RadeonHD's power usage puts the laptop up to 24 watts versus 14 when fglrx is in its best power-saving mode. Is there a utility to set the clock speed of the chip anywhre?
All in all a very interesting experience.
Thanks,
Cameron
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