From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Apr 16 13: 2:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55B137B509 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (msmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3GK36513708; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:03:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200104162003.f3GK36513708@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: parv , f-mobile Subject: Re: observation: clock slows down when battery power gets low In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:56:24 MDT." <15067.20072.287919.138424@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:03:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > just an observation... on dell i5000e, clock slowed down > > by about an hour and 10 minutes. didn't see anything else > > happening. i instinctively pressed the "power" button > > when "power" led was not shining. nothing bad happened (of > > course, apm is disabled.). > > I think apm must be enabled for it to recognize the 'slowing' clock and > deal with things correctly. > > Either that or completely disable power-savings... No, just don't use the TSC. The BIOS is winding the CPU clock back to reduce power consumption, but the TSC code has no way of knowing that this is going on. Again - do not use the TSC. Got it yet? 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message