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From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
To: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: voltage on an intel dual core L2400 @ 1.66GHz
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:25:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608222225.25264.len.brown@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2219c8a0608221447n115309ewd55212ce4e5e9342@mail.gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-23  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-22 21:47 voltage on an intel dual core L2400 @ 1.66GHz antoine
2006-08-23  2:25 ` Len Brown [this message]
2006-08-24 15:23   ` antoine

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