On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:

man sysctl

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sunday 18 Nov 2012 14:15:39 Thanasis wrote:
> 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

Thanks Thanasis, the start up script works fine, but was wondering if that was
the only way to set it up.
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Regards,
Mick