power management

If you're a frequent visitor to Dell Earth , you've probably noticed a little ticker at the bottom of the screen calculating cost and carbon savings enabled through power management on Dell OptiPlex desktops .

Added support for the following new GPUs: Quadro NVS 450, Quadro FX 370 LP, Quadro FX 5800, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 470, Quadro CX Fixed a problem on recent mobile GPUs that caused a power management resume ...

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Ubuntu Forums: "The fix that has now been applied is the Debian fix, which purposely leaves the power management (and therefore the cycling) enabled when the laptop is working on battery."

Freescale Semiconductor announced it is looking to sell its cellular handset chip division. The products it plans to jettison comprise baseband processors, RF transceivers, and power management/audio products for handsets, says the semiconductor firm, and are likely to include its Linux-ready MXC line of "cellphone-on-module" chips.

Nathaniel Pettis , Purdue University, West Lafayette Yung-Hsiang Lu , Purdue University, West Lafayette Abstract A significant volume of research has concentrated on operating system-directed power management.

DeviceGuru: "According to an online survey conducted by the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, 55 percent of 7,274 respondents don't take advantage of their PCs' power management functions, such as suspend/resume shut-down options and performance profiles."

Micron Technology has announced two new lines of solid-state drives, one of which could offer huge performance and power-management benefits in servers, according to the company.

The Ottawa Linux power management summit was held on July 22, 2008 - immediately prior to this year's Linux Symposium.

For those who could not be there, Len Brown has posted a set of notes from the meeting. The discussion covered a wide variety of topics, including the OMAP3 processor, snapshot boot, USB power management, server power management, and more.

MontaVista Software will present a free webinar on the Intel Atom processor (pictured). Developed in cooperation with Intel, the July 30 webinar will provide tips on power management and programming techniques for embedded Linux applications using the Atom.