Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 01:01:47 +0100 From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerNow in mobile AthlonXP Message-ID: <20040313000147.GQ28592@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <20040311180557.GB78217@www.lambertfam.org> References: <74EC3F3BA88A824FA61D3FD88097DB821915EF@ITIServer03.iti> <20040311180557.GB78217@www.lambertfam.org>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 01:05:57PM -0500, Scott Lambert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:17:11AM +0100, antic_eye wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I googled all the web for a solution, so I hope you could help me. I > > have a PackardBell Laptop with a mobile athlon xp inside. I installed > > FreeBSD 5.2.1 3 weeks ago and everything works fine. Even the screen > > flickering under x I fixed (it lasts me one week :o)). > > > > My problem is, that I dont know how to trottle the cpu frequency. Linux > > has the cpufreqd. Is there anything appropriate in BSD? ACPI is up and > > running (expect the StandBy mode - it doesn't work) > > I think Nate Lawson is working on getting a generic CPU frequency > maniplation system added. My athlon laptop also runs full speed all the > time and has no throttle options in the acpi sysctls. > > hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported: C1/0 > hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: 0 > hw.acpi.cpu.cx_history: 42619368/0 > That strange. I would expect that your laptop will support at least C2 since without it a laptop based on Athlon is somewhat overheaten. Cheers, -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.
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