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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:15:39 +0200
From: Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org>
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CC: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to save a change to radeon power profile
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on 11/18/2012 04:13 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
> on 11/18/2012 02:37 PM Mick wrote the following:
>> I would like to check the difference between the power management profile 
>> settings of 'default' and 'auto' for my radeon card.  I can change it from 
>> default with:
>>
>> # echo auto > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
>>
>> # cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile 
>> auto
>>
>> but, upon reboot it has reverted back to 'default'  :-(
>>
>>
>> I looked under sysctl but can't find anything.  How can I set the profile to 
>> 'auto' to survive between reboots? 
> 
> create a script in /etc/local.d as root and make it executable :
> 
> cd /etc/local.d
> cat > set_radeon_to_auto
> echo auto > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
> (CTRL-D)
> chmod +x set_radeon_to_auto

Correction: the name of the script must end in .start
like:
set_radeon_to_auto.start