Re: Centrino question

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng-Sjgp3cTcYWE@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:31, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> > 
> > Which means we have to use the drivers provided by Intel??
> 
> Those are deprecated.

Ah..

> > Or do you just mean the speedstep functions?
> 
> I guess Jun means the cpufreq centrino speedstep driver.

That's what I'm using

> > I have cpuspeedfreq installed and when I'm quoting the number
> > of hours, I actually am quoting it with cpufreq turned on and running 
> > at 600Mhz only with nothing plugged into the USB, backlight at it's dimmest
> > and all that. (Even the fan is turned off!


> That's strange.  Are you sure you are not running a kind of throttling
> control stuff instead?

What do you mean? When I'm on battery, I also run the laptop_mode patch.
(though now, I have trouble with XFS not understanding the commit=600 or
something like that)

I don't have the P-states anymore since upgrading to 2.6 kernel on RH9
(2.6.3)

cat /proc/acpi/info                
version:                 20040211


 cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling
state count:             8
active state:            T0
states:
   *T0:                  00%
    T1:                  12%
    T2:                  25%
    T3:                  37%
    T4:                  50%
    T5:                  62%
    T6:                  75%
    T7:                  87%

cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info
processor id:            0
acpi id:                 0
bus mastering control:   yes
power management:        yes
throttling control:      yes
limit interface:         yes

cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/limit
active limit:            P0:T0
user limit:              P0:T0
thermal limit:           P0:T0


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