> > I read about autospeedstep, and installed it. It compiled well, > > and runs well, and /var/log/speedstep indicates that it changes > > betrwwn powersave and full power, but i don't quite trust it : > > speedstep has nothing to do with throttling. Speedstep changes the > cpu clock rate between two frequencies, throttling stops the cpu > for some time by stopping the clock signal at all. > So you may have to look at /proc/cpuinfo, I don't have a speedstep > capable processor, so I cannot check this.
You can manually change the throttling with something like: echo 5 > /proc/acpi/xxxxx/throttle It works fine on my Asus L3800S (P4). If I want to get a good battery life, I dim the display, and set throttle to 5 or 6 (out of a range of 0..7, where 0=fast). I haven't measured the effect, but I think it extends battery life by 1/3 at least. The P4 in my Asus also does not have speedstep (according to the kernel, when I enabled speedstep in the kernel config). Gwen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
