Re: [gpm] ATI fglrx voltage switch using gnome-power-manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 20:35 +0100, Adolfo Gonz�z Bl�uez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering if there's any way (now or planned) to change the voltage
> from ATI video cards (using the fglrx) when switching from betteries to
> ac.

Yes, I was thinking of adding similar functionality to HAL to do this
for nvidia cards.

> I mean, on batteries, switch the ati card to low voltage; and on ac,
> swithc the ati card to high voltage.
> 
> This can be donde using the aticonfig utility:
> aticonfig --lsp -> List de powerstates
> aticonfig --set-powerstate=N -> Set the voltage to N (output from above)

Is this 110% safe? i.e. will we break systems if this is done wrong?

Richard.