On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 00:58 +0100, Anders Breindahl wrote: > On 2006-01-29 0626, Michael Abbott wrote: > > Also, any general overheating help would be most appreciated. I've > > tried a couple things now: Disable apmd. Run on a non-SMP kernel > > instead. All to no avail. There are some hardware related solutions > > that I might avoid (until I get this working at least) since I didn't > > have the same overheating issues under WinXP (which hopefully means > > there is a software fix ;). > > I need to ask -- do you step down the CPU's speed (known as > ``speedstepping'', in the Pentium M world)? > > If not, that might remedy it: Windows XP does this per default, and that > would cause the processor to have a lot of time to cool in.
A Google search told me that powernowd is responsible for this. A run tells me this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc$ sudo powernowd powernowd: PowerNow Daemon v0.96, (c) 2003-2005 John Clemens powernowd: Found 1 cpus: -- 2 threads (or cores) per physical cpu powernowd: cpu0: 1599Mhz - 3066Mhz (2 steps) powernowd: cpu1: 1599Mhz - 3066Mhz (2 steps) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc$ sudo powernowd -v powernowd: PowerNow Daemon v0.96, (c) 2003-2005 John Clemens powernowd: Settings: powernowd: verbosity: 1 powernowd: mode: 1 (AGGRESSIVE) powernowd: step: 100 MHz (100000 kHz) powernowd: lowwater: 20 % powernowd: highwater: 80 % powernowd: poll interval: 1000 ms powernowd: Found 1 cpus: -- 2 threads (or cores) per physical cpu powernowd: cpu0: 1599Mhz - 3066Mhz (2 steps) powernowd: step1 : 3066Mhz powernowd: step2 : 1599Mhz powernowd: cpu1: 1599Mhz - 3066Mhz (2 steps) powernowd: step1 : 3066Mhz powernowd: step2 : 1599Mhz Does that even make sense considering each of my "cores" should be "1.6Ghz"?! I would have thought that 1.6Ghz -> 3Ghz means the processor would /never/ speedstep? > By the way, at what wattage does that machine run? My girlfriend's I1300 > sits at 23-26W -- I was impressed. I have no idea :( I can have a look at the manual at work on Monday and see if they have that info. If anything the wattage will be crazy -- this machine would suck power like nothing else :P Thanks, - Mab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
