The most recent copy of Linux Magazine has an article on laptops, and it seems ACPI functions are what you're looking for. To paraphrase the article: APM doesn't provide the interface to power features such as CPU throttling; what you need is ACPI, but since it's still young and still being developed, you should go to the ACPI4Linux home page http://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi for more info.
HTH, FL From: ME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:48:23 -0800 (PST) Re: [vox-tech] weird boot message On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Aaron King wrote: > I've found a few settings in the BIOS which might affect this > behavior. I can set up the power mode for "maximum performance" as > opposed to "maximum battery life". I set this to "maximum > performance" and get full 697 MHz even when booting off the battery. Yep, this is one of the BIOS based systems that I was writing about.
