From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 02:06:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D56316A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:06:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.irrelevant.org (dsl-217-155-238-246.zen.co.uk [217.155.238.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F31843D1D for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from [62.244.179.195] (helo=[192.168.195.53]) by home.irrelevant.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1B3XwH-0008T0-1I; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:06:17 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Bruno Ducrot In-Reply-To: <20040313000147.GQ28592@poupinou.org> References: <74EC3F3BA88A824FA61D3FD88097DB821915EF@ITIServer03.iti> <20040311180557.GB78217@www.lambertfam.org> <20040313000147.GQ28592@poupinou.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1079517975.10165.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:06:15 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "nelly.internal.irrelevant.org", hasmessageblock similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details.OnThu,>helpI installed > > > FreeBSD 5.2.1 3 weeks ago and everything works fine. 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 athlon laptop also runs full speed all the > > time and has no throttle>>C2 > since without it a laptop based on Athlon is somewhat overheaten. [...] Content analysis details: (-4.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description --------------------------------------------------1% [score: 0.0000] 0.9 AWL AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerNow in mobile AthlonXP X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:06:23 -0000 On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 00:01, Bruno Ducrot wrote: > 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. My XP2400+ laptop does show C2: simond@laptop:~$ sysctl hw.acpi.cpu hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported: C1/0 C2/90 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: 0 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_history: 62780232/0 0/0