[ltp] T60 battery

Michael Gaber linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:43:13 +0100


Carles Pina i Estany schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Standard battery in a T60. To increase the duration of the battery i am
> doing:
> echo userspace > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> echo 1000000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
> 
> echo userspace > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> echo 1000000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
> 
> echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
> 
> aticonfig --set-powerstate=1
> 

why userspace? i think ondemand/conservative is much more useful, 
because the cpu jumping up in the frequency for a second wouldn't cost 
as much energy as running for several seconds at low speed,