[ltp] [Power management] DynamicClocks

[Michael Olbrich]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:23:02PM +0200, Paul RIVIER wrote:
> With no DynamicClocks, and with no fan (cf my scripts, you should really 
> give them a try, they work like a charm ;) ), my GPU - cat 
> /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal : the 4° value - remains stable at around 50 °C. 
> With dynamicClocks, it reaches 60 °C and waste power (more than 1 watt).

I guess I have to restart X at some point to enable this...

> Please let me tell you that under 55 °C, fan is *useless* and wastes 0,7 
> to 1 Watt, so if your fan is supported by the last ibm-acpi, you sould 
> use my scripts (or yours if you do not like mines) to save power and 
> avoid noise :)

Errr, why would I need a script for that? My fan does that without any
interfering software. Or is that model speciffic?

michael