From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri May 3 22:58:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (dhcp45-25.dis.org [216.240.45.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D7EA37B41B for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 22:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g445uZh00500; Fri, 3 May 2002 22:56:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200205040556.g445uZh00500@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Chia-liang Kao Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: acpi cpu throtlling In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Apr 2002 07:22:40 +0800." <20020427232240.GA52876@portege.clkao.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 22:56:35 -0700 From: Michael Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > my toshiba portege 3480 with a recent -current is unwilling to do cpu > throttling with acpi. acpidump shows: > > DUTY_OFFSET=1, DUTY_WIDTH=0 > > is there any way to alter this? I actually saw acpidump of the same > model in the archive with duty_width=3 Sorry, no. CPU throttling is not really the best solution to the saving-power problem; you want to run fast and then turn everything off rather than limping along with all these peripheral devices guzzling power. = Mike -- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message