How to make use of Power Management features

2004-11-16T13:49:25Z

Gthomassen: Added DynamicClocks in the Radeon Xorg driver

==APM==

===general===
You need to enable the APM Power Management support in the kernel and install the [[apmd]] to handle the events triggered by the kernel driver.
The configuration for what to do at the different events is done in the proxy script which is usually found in /etc/apmd_proxy.
See <tt>man apmd</tt> for further information on this.

===Screen blanking (Standby)===
Todo...

===Suspend to RAM (Sleep)===
Todo...

===Suspend to disk (Hibernate)===
The Phoenix BIOS allows you two ways to hibernate with APM: using a special partition or using a hibernation file on a dos type partition.

====using a hibernation partition====
Todo...

====using a hibernation file on a dos partition====
The partition to put the file on must be a dos or vfat partition. Fat32 formatted partitions have been reported successful as well as Fat16 formatted ones. The file is either created with phdisk.exe, if you happen to have a floppy drive and a bootable dos floppy disk that you can start it from.
Under Linux [[tphdisk]] will do this job for you.

Todo... (how to create the file, partition size)

==ACPI==

===general===
Todo...

===Screen blanking (Standby)===
Todo...

===Suspend to RAM (Sleep)===
ACPI Sleep and suspend-to-ram with recent 2.6.x kernels usually works fine, too.

Todo...

===Suspend to disk (Hibernate)===
There are two drivers for this available:
* swsusp, which is in the kernel and
* [http://developer.berlios.de/projects/softwaresuspend/ SoftwareSuspend2] which is more feature rich, but not yet in the kernel, so you have to patch it in yourself
Both are reported to work fine as long as you use open-source graphic drivers. A comparison of the features can be found on [http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/features.html this page].

====using swsusp====
Todo...

====using SoftwareSuspend2====
Todo...

==Dynamic Frequency Scaling (SpeedStep)==

===configuring the kernel===

====2.4 kernels====
Todo...

====2.6 kernels====
Todo...

If you have a Coppermine-piix-smi based Thinkpads like from the A2x, X2x and T2x series you might want to look at [[How to get SpeedStep working on Coppermine-piix4-smi based Thinkpads | this page]].

===configuring SpeedStep daemons===
*[[How to configure cpufreqd | cpufreqd]]
*[[Hot to configure powersaved | powersaved]]

==Harddisk Power Management==
Todo...

===enabling the harddisks power management features===

#!/bin/sh
# I' using this on FC2 and FC3
# cpu throttling off as FC does thisout-of-the-box
# turning swap off is only for those that feel comfortable
# doing something this nasty.
#
# pcfe, 2004-11-15

# cpu throttling
# cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling for more info
ACAD_THR=0
BATT_THR=2

# spindown time for HD (man hdparm for valid values)
# I prefer 2 hours for acad and 2 min for batt
ACAD_HD=244
BATT_HD=24

# Power management level
# 255 (off) on AC
# 128 (medium) on batt
# lowered to 32, pcfe, 2004-06-23
# upped to 64, pcfe, 2004-07-14
# upped to 96, pcfe, 2004-10-20
ACAD_PM=255
BATT_PM=96

# ac/battery event handler

status=`awk '/^state: / { print $2 }' /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state`

case $status in
"on-line")
logger "Running /sbin/laptop_mode stop"
/sbin/laptop_mode stop
logger "Setting HD spindown for AC mode with hdparm -S $ACAD_HD /dev/hda."
/sbin/hdparm -S $ACAD_HD /dev/hda > /dev/null 2>&1
logger "Setting HD powersaving for AC mode with hdparm -B $ACAD_PM /dev/hda."
/sbin/hdparm -B $ACAD_PM /dev/hda > /dev/null 2>&1
#logger "Turning on swap."
#/sbin/swapon -a
#echo -n $ACAD_CPU:$ACAD_THR > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/limit
exit 0
;;
"off-line")
#logger "Turning off swap."
#/sbin/swapoff -a
logger "Running /sbin/laptop_mode start"
/sbin/laptop_mode start
logger "Setting HD spindown for battery mode with hdparm -S $BATT_HD /dev/hda."
/sbin/hdparm -S $BATT_HD /dev/hda > /dev/null 2>&1
logger "Setting HD powersaving for battery mode with hdparm -B $BATT_PM /dev/hda."
/sbin/hdparm -B $BATT_PM /dev/hda > /dev/null 2>&1
#echo -n $BATT_CPU:$BATT_THR > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/limit
exit 0
;;
esac

===Laptop-mode===
Todo...

==DynamicClocks in the Radeon Xorg driver==
The xorg X server have support for a power saving feature from ATI called PowerPlay. Xorg calls this feature DynamicClocks. It can be enabled in the server by adding '''Option "DynamicClocks" "on"''' in the '''Device''' section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "IBM Thinkpad"
BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility M9"
'''Option "DynamicClocks" "on"'''
EndSection

With this option enabled, the X11 server should print (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):

(**) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicClocks" "on"
(II) RADEON(0): Dynamic Clock Scaling Enabled

http://www.ati.com/products/pdf/powerplaywp2.pdf

==other Hardware==
Todo...(if any - other ways of saving power and such)

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