From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 19:15:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA3B16A404 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:15:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from applecom@inbox.ru) Received: from mx1.mail.ru (mx1-2.mail.ru [194.67.23.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FFF13C46E for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:15:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from applecom@inbox.ru) Received: from [85.115.165.63] (port=49079 helo=xml.opera.com) by mx1.mail.ru with asmtp id 1HAt0t-000K0q-00; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:14:59 +0300 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:14:54 +0500 To: FK From: applecom@inbox.ru Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20070128014602A.fk@rosy.dyndns.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070128014602A.fk@rosy.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.10 (FreeBSD) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium 3 Clock Frequency Control X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:15:09 -0000 FK wrote: > Is it posible to control Pentium 3 clock frequency on FreeBSD? > The purpose is to reduce the power consumption and lengthen battery > life. > In addition, how can we know what speed of cpu clock frequecy a cpu > supports and what speed a cpu take at any given time? I suppose > that a command which returns each information exist. > Well, a couple years ago I patched to, if I remember correctly, > 5.4 kernel and it made this need possible at least on Pentium M. > I tried to find the web page but I failed. > I am using FreeBSD6.0-RELEASE now. Look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2005-March/001346.html Hope it helps.