The open source "radeon" driver, with Dynamic Power Management enabled, and *especially* with the DPM widget installed, is running so much cooler on my laptop.
Meanwhile the nonfree fglrx driver still has problems with fullscreen video on YouTube, WatchESPN and just about every other place I watch video. Hm.
Seriously thinking of just removing fglrx and everything to do with it. Why have it taking up space?
Radeon driver seems to run better than fglrx now
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Radeon driver seems to run better than fglrx now
by VoodooDali » May 3rd, '14, 20:27
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Re: Radeon driver seems to run better than fglrx now
by doktor5000 » May 3rd, '14, 20:41
Just a dumb question - what's the DPM widget?
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Re: Radeon driver seems to run better than fglrx now
by VoodooDali » May 3rd, '14, 20:58
QML widget for controlling Dynamic Power Management. Takes some rc.local editing to make it work, but not particularly difficult.
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