Better or advised configuration approach for Optimus based systems

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 13:29 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>
>> What about i915_enable_rc6 not being the default...? Does still put
>> stability problems? Does it make sense to enable it or not by default
>> based on different adapters/chipsets?
>> In my case it gives me about 1hour and a half of battery life more....
>
> modinfo asserts:
>
> parm:           i915_enable_rc6:Enable power-saving render C-state 6
> (default: true) (int)
>
> are you sure it's *not* the default?

Yes.  Modinfo is lying to you.

josh