From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek Broughton Subject: Re: [ACPI-sppt] Missing C states & thermal stuff on P4M Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:33:41 -0300 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <004801c33425$0bbf0c10$3746028e@bio.dfo.ca> References: <000f01c3340c$2cf966a0$3746028e@bio.dfo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: ACPI Development - Sourceforge List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org From: "Florian Streibelt" > > > > cpufreq: Intel(R) SpeedStep(TM) for this chipset not (yet) available. > > > > Not ACPI related, but indicating that there's no support for controlling > > frequency in Linux. > > I think that means that the cpufreq kernel-patch is not able to control > the processor speed. But ACPI may be able to do so. > > I have a Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz and I am getting > the same message, when using a kernel with that patch. > But I am able to throttle the CPU via ACPI-Interface by doing > echo "7" > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU/throttlin > or any other number between 0-7. In fact, his does appear to support throttling - so does my Celeron. iirc, this isn't frequency related, but I'm getting out of my depth now :-). derek ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5