[ltp] T41 cpufreqd issue

[Dan Borello]

I don't think you are doing anything wrong.  I believe that
the lowest that it can be set is 600mhz, at least for me.  I
wasn't aware that windows puts it at 200, which may explain
the better battery life.

dan

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 01:34:21 -0400
>From: "Lance A. Brown" <lance@bearcircle.net>  
>Subject: [ltp] T41 cpufreqd issue  
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>
>Greetings,
>
>I have Fedora Core 1 with kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl running
on an IBM
>T41 (2378-EPU).  I'm trying to use cpufreqd to throttle the
CPU when I'm
>running on the batter but cannot seem to convince it to put
either the
>minimum or maximum CPU frequency below 35%.
>
>I've seen the CPU freq down near 200Mhz under WindowsXPPro so
I should
>be able to get down to that kind of speed under linux, no?
>
>
>[root@cub 0]# echo '0%15%15%powersave' > /proc/cpufreq
>[root@cub 0]# cat /proc/cpufreq
>          minimum CPU frequency  -  maximum CPU frequency  -
 policy
>CPU  0       600000 kHz ( 35 %)  -     600000 kHz ( 35 %)  -
 powersave
>
>Am I doing something wrong?
>
>--[Lance]
>
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