From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 17:14:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E86437B401 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 17:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.x123.info (165.Red-80-37-224.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.37.224.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D37F943F75 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 17:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from esn@x123.info) Received: (qmail 53760 invoked from network); 31 May 2003 00:14:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wire.x123.info) (esn@192.168.1.2) by 0 with SMTP; 31 May 2003 00:14:20 -0000 From: "Sebastian Yepes [ESN]" To: Bruce Cran Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 02:14:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200305301352.16822.esn@x123.info> <20030530153236.GB16758@fourtytwo.brucec.backnet> In-Reply-To: <20030530153236.GB16758@fourtytwo.brucec.backnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305310214.21978.esn@x123.info> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ?full cpuspeed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 00:14:35 -0000 So how have you solved this problem.. On Friday 30 May 2003 5:32 pm, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:52:16PM +0000, Sebastian Yepes [ESN] wrote: > > Hi all i have a Dell inspiron 8500 Notebook that have SpeedStep > > when i am on AC power i just love my notebook, but when i gen on Battery > > i can't even see a dvd & and my X run verry slow.. > > > > is there and way to force fbsd to use 'hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed=8' when > > i am on battery.. by the way 'hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed' is read only.. > > > > -- sysctl -- > > > > --AC Power-- > > hw.acpi.cpu.max_speed: 8 > > hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed: 8 > > hw.acpi.cpu.performance_speed: 8 > > hw.acpi.cpu.economy_speed: 4 > > > > --Battery Power-- > > hw.acpi.cpu.max_speed: 8 > > hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed: 4 > > hw.acpi.cpu.performance_speed: 8 > > hw.acpi.cpu.economy_speed: 4 > > There are two possible problems here. If you power on on AC and switch > over to battery, you can set the hw.acpi.cpu.economy_speed to 8 to get the > full CPU speed. If you power on using battery though, Dell have made it so > you'll only ever be able to use 60% CPU speed, regardless if you later > switch to AC. For example, my 2.0GHz i8500 boots up as 1.2GHz and is > detected as such by FreeBSD. The economy_speed sysctl will then throttle > it further to 600MHz. > > -- > Bruce Cran > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- /* FingerPrint: 5BF1 58B1 DE75 CBE3 6044 7098 1246 1EF6 9E78 041C @@@@@@@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@@ @@! @@@ !@@ @@! @@@ @!@!@!@ !@@!! @!@ !@! !!: !!! !:! !!: !!! :: : :: ::.: : :: : : The Power To Kill LinuX */