[ltp] Avoiding C3 state, was: no C3 state in X - but i do get to C3 with X running but not displayed on screen

[Jeff Lessem]

Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com> writes:

> uh... this does hijact the thread

Yeah, I should probably start a new one...

> this is a known problem with vmware...
> put this in your /etc/vmware/config
>
> host.cpukHz = 1600000 (or whatever your speed is)
> hostinfo.noTSC = TRUE
> tools.syncTime = TRUE

Unfortunately that doesn't work.  The second hand doesn't move in the
windows clock, but as soon as I start a cpu intensive process (niced
down) the clock runs at normal speed.