Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rovcl...@packages.debian.org, Christian Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org>, Package Salvaging Team <team+salv...@tracker.debian.org>, Alexander GQ Gerasiov <g...@debian.org> Control: affects -1 + src:rovclock User: ftp.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: remove
Hi, Christian Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> did the following analysis about this package at Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:33:32 +0100: I've investigated a bit more. https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rovclock has a bit of a description of the program, and claims it complements the "DynamicClocks" X.Org radeon driver option. The current radeon driver no longer has this option, instead it was renamed to "ClockGating" in 2009. The same commit switched the internal implementation to a function called "RADEONSetClockGating". Later in 2009, the "ClockGating" option was dropped from the radeon driver, and commit 4b3a3785f7b06205eeec6ca6b8913ecc2b94bd1f says: Unify ForceLowPowerMode and DynamicPM Options Force lower power mode and switch to a lower mode when idle. The same commit stopped calling RADEONSetClockGating. RADEONSetClockGating was removed in 2012. To me this all sounds like that at best, rovclock will not work anymore with current X.org drivers (which do their own power management (?)). Worst case it will do something to the card behind the drivers back and might produce an unexpected state. Since I agree with Christian I'm filing this RoQA bug report. Kind regards and thank you for your work as ftpmaster Andreas.
