> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'll try it out; meanwhile, I've discovered the sysctl to change this >> manually. I've checked it works by trying to compile something at the >> lowest CPU clock speed. It was slow to hell :-) > > That's probably clock throttling which is different..
Yes, the sysctl included "throttle". As I said, I'm new to the laptop world.. Is the power saving difference a lot if I just throttle the clock, instead of using enhanced speed step? > > [Enhanced] Speed Step reduces the clock speed and the CPU core voltage.. > clock > throttling just idles the CPU for a certain proportion of the time. If you > want slow try forcing them both to the slowest speed.. Pentium-M 75Mhz :) > >> > Any chance there is a new BIOS available for that system? >> >> A quick googling session brought up nothing. > > How about say, checking the makers web site? > I also did, nothing :-P >> > No.. If I try and look at a non existent battery slot it says 'device >> not >> > configured' so maybe it thinks you have no batteries for some strange >> > reason. >> >> I've installed klaptop and it shows battery as -1 and 'not charging' >> acpiconf -i[0-9] didn't do any good either :/ > > Without ACPI support being able to read your battery status no userland > program will work. > > Your dmesg shows acpi_cmbat entries, ie > acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0 > acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0 > > which I think is pretty fundamental to being able to read battery status > ;) > Yesterday I googled a bit for my laptop name+linux and I found a post from a guy who had the same exact problem under Linux. He had /proc/acpi but no /proc/acpi/battery. I know battery status can be seen, as the laptop shipped with win XP home, which I promptly got rid of, but I installed a game there to see how many FPS I'd get playing with the laptop. So I still messed around with it (windows) for around 35 minutes, and could see the little battery icon discharging. If the acpi_cmbat0/1 shows up on dmesg, what could be wrong? Perhaps this ACPI implementation is a bit weird and I should send a copy of my asl to freebsd-acpi ? > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
