James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/08/2007 04:56:26 PM: > So that does substantially help matters -- I have to try pretty hard to > make it skip in that situation. It unfortunately also chews through > battery life and makes the fan scream like some kind of gently blowing > banshee. Needing 1.7GHz of processing power to download email and play > music seems a bit overkill. > > But ok, it may be *switching* performance levels that is the problem > (since that will occur when my mail client wakes up and does stuff). If > that is the case, what kind of things could I do? I've previously tried > re-nicing rhythmbox and esd to -19 and it seemed to have no measurable > effect. > Which driver are you using for the cpufreq? cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver
If your using the generic acpi, try the driver specific for your cpu/chipset. If not, try using acpi-cpufreq. Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
