powernowd, powersaved, and basically everything else I could find seemed to be designed to control the speed step of which I have I believe (6) between 400mhz and 1667mhz. I got it to lower the speed when installed, but not ever get it back up.
However, this seems to be a distinct entity from the "cpu throttling" which seems to be occurring automatically. So I seem to have: *Athcool- which does this: VIA KT266/333[A] (1106 3099) found 'Disconnect when STPGNT Detected' bit is enabled. 'HALT Command Detection' bit is enabled. doesn't seem to effect speed or throttling, but drops the temp when there's less processing requirements. *CPU Throttling which doesn't seem to affect the actual mhz speed, but does definitely slowthe comuter down and has a slow impact on the temp. and automatically kicks in and ramps up around 80C. And the powernowd type apps which seem to be intended to set the actual "step" of speed in mhz. At this point, I'm not even sure what it is I'm trying to accomplish anymore. I'd like a "meter" like ksensors that told me what my throttling is at. But, I would really just like to keep it from getting so warm and/or throttling back. Being able to drop the speed back when not needed to help with temps and power would be a nice add-on... Levi On 5/4/06, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Levi Smith wrote: ... > All of the apps are supposed to automatically adjust the speed, however, the only > thing I could get to happen was sometimes they would lower it when > installed. They never changed otherwise. The only way I got back to full > speed was with a reboot. Which apps are you talking about, powernowd, powersaved, etc.? Of course, normal apps don't directly control ACPI-related performance (e.g. fan, CPU, battery, etc.). > Can anyone give me some hints on: > -Real-time monitoring of cpu throttling (not speed in mhz which is > apparently different)? > -Automatic adjustment of CPU speed? > -Manual adjustment of CPU speed? > -The safe temps for a Mobile AMD Athlon 2000? > > Thanks! > Levi I think the best place to ask those questions is probably on the ACPI4Linux mailing list. Check their website for subscription info and where to find their archives: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ You might want to find out which ODM made your laptop, and then google for a support forum for it. For general info, this site is helpful: http://www.powernotebooks.com/articles/index.php?action=showcat&catid=7 Specifically, this article: http://www.powernotebooks.com/articles/index.php?action=fullnews&id=17 Once you know who made the laptop, hopefully it'll become easier to tweak Linux to a better fit. Look in /proc/acpi/ to see if there is an entry for your laptop. For instance, I found these two sites whose info helped convince me to buy the laptop I did: http://resonance.org/~josh/laptop.html http://home.arcor.de/Leviathan81/z71v.html -- Best Regards, ~DJA. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
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