Better or advised configuration approach for Optimus based systems

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Nov 22 17:28:34 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 11:18 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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.

Lying? Why, I oughta...
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net



More information about the test mailing list