Shaun,
You're going to need Kernel 2.6, unless they've backported this
functionality. Then you want to read up and look documentation on
cpu-freq. I just started configuring 2.6 kernel yesterday, and I
noticed a whole new section in there for CPU throttling, so there
is hope for you my friend :)Phillip On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:51:45AM -0700, Shaun Ladewig wrote: > I'm finally getting everything on my laptop to work the way that I want > it to (other than getting a GUI CD-burning system to work), and have > started to notice that I don't get very long battery life. I made sure > that ACPI was working and watched what the CPU was running on and it > didn't drop one iota from the max speed (duh, I figured... I didn't do > anything to get it to do otherwise). > > So... I was wondering what kind of experience anyone has with getting > CPU throttling to work? (Maybe also wireless card power throttling, but > that can wait.) I am making an assumption that should extend how long I > can keep my laptop going. (Windows Max Time: 3 hr 30 mins, Linux: 1 hr > 20 mins [can't remember if that was with the wireless card or not]) > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Phillip Hellewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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