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In Linux, I've pretty much decided that the only way to get ATI's PowerPlay feature to use a non-default powerstate and to make the change persistent is to autorun this command at boot time:
I've tried this: But it didn't take.
I've also tried adding this to the Device section of xorg.conf: But that didn't work, either.

Of course, I can always set the powerstate on the fly, but I wanted to keep the powersaving setting as my new default.

If anybody knows of a more elegant solution, I'd like to know.

BTW, I'm using the newest ATI proprietary drivers (8.34.08).

Thanks.

Does your distribution use the /etc/rc.local file? If so, you could put your command in there and it will be executed at bootup.

k0lo wrote:Does your distribution use the /etc/rc.local file? If so, you could put your command in there and it will be executed at bootup.

Thanks for your reply.

That's essentially what I've been doing. My distro is Gentoo, but since I'm running Xfce right now, I've just listed the command in Settings / Autostarted Applications.

If I don't find a better way to set the ati powerstate, I'll put a tiny script in /etc/init.d/ and then add to it boot or default with rc-update (which is how Gentoo handles this).

I was hoping I could find a way to tweak the driver without explicitly running the command at boot time, but the documented methods (see my original post) don't seem to work, at least not on my system.