Re: Save power at idle onTyan S2466N-MPX, athcool, etc.

[Erik Slagter <erik-KW7PGP3XNp7a5EbDDlwbIw@public.gmane.org>]

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On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:54 -0700, David Mathog wrote:

> > Please search the mailing list archives for something like amd760,
> > amd768, amd76x_pm, smp, or simply my name. This has all been covered.

> I already did that.

Okay, good.

> There is a lot of general discussion but
> very few details on the final, working, configuration.  In fact,
> having gone through that thread twice already I couldn't determine
> for sure what the final, working configuration actually was!

I my case: no configuration is working :-( That is because I use a
promise sata card which gets upset very easily.

I tried c3 but maybe if I limit to c2, it will work.

(all using amd76x_pm)

> That is what I'm after, in particular:
> 
> > > 1. relevant BIOS settings
> > > 2. minimum kernel required
> > > 3. any extra kernel patches required
> > > 4. any extra software (like athcool) required

1. none 
2. 2.6 iirc
3. amd76x_pm (http://www.sommrey.de/amd76x_pm/)
4. none

> Yeah, these boards are a bit of a pain.  I've got 20 of them.
> Power them all down and turn them back on and the
> odds are nil that they'll all come back up again.

Yep. They take ages to reset and then you'll have to have to luck it
actually does come up.

> (Under linux, with no graphics or other complex drivers
> to confuse them.)  We use ECC memory, maybe that helps.

Once running there is no problem (apart from the promise sata controller
issue, which very well may be a mainboard issue indeed). I have been
running with ECC for quite a while, but couldn't use it together with
the extra (non-ECC) I added later.

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