From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: voltage on an intel dual core L2400 @ 1.66GHz Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:25:24 -0400 Message-ID: <200608222225.25264.len.brown@intel.com> References: Reply-To: Len Brown Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: cpufreq-bounces@lists.linux.org.uk Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org@lists.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk On Tuesday 22 August 2006 17:47, antoine wrote: > Hello, > > Just got this x60s, everything runs smoothly but for one thing which > is the battery life being 40% shorter and the whole computer running > hotter than "usual" (i.e. the 4 days I spend with windows on it). > > I suspect the voltage associated to each frequency by cpufreq are too > high but couldn't find a way to check those as of now. I don't really > want to lower them, I was just wondering how they were set? > > I know about the linux-PHC patch, but it seems this is only if you > wish to lower the default voltages, I merely wish to know what my > current ones are right now. It might be a good idea to get an objective measurement of the Linux battery life on the system: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bltk cheers, -Len