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Experimentally, it seems that rovclock determines the maximum frequency, and "DynamicClocks" tells the chip to a lower frequency when possible. They are thus complementary. --Thinker 18:59, 27 Oct 2005 (CEST)
show current power state with fglrx?
Switching power states using aticonfig
seems to work fine. Seems, because I can't really see in which state the ATI chip is currently in. Or can I?
--spiney 14:40, 20 Nov 2005 (CET)
You can (destructively) check whether it's in a specific state by trying to switch to that state. If it's alredy there, it will give an error. If not, it will switch and (on my machine) cause a brief screen blink. Indeed, brilliant engineering.
--Thinker 15:32, 20 Nov 2005 (CET)