[ltp] CPU Throttling on R50p

[Winsley von Spee]

Thank ATI and praise the lord in hope of better drivers .... *g* ... or work in console ... *g*

hmm If you are using the scaling abilities under windows the same way as under linux the difference shouldn't be so large anyway.

Greetz

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:02:41 +0100
Michael Gaber <Michael.Gaber@gmx.net> wrote:

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> ok that might be the cause, but i have still the problem, that under
> linux i have only about 2 hours of battery while under windows i can
> work about 4
> 
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> Winsley von Spee wrote:
> | Hi
> |
> | The Pentium M CPU's aren't able to scale to a lower freq than 600 MHz.
> The newer one (the one with the dothan core) are only able to scale down
> to 800 MHz. If something in Windows report a clock speed of 200 MHz it's
> wrong. Throttling doesn't change the cpu clock it just adds idle cycles
> to reduce the power consumption if the cpu is to hot.
> |
> | cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU/throttling
> |
> | Reports the available throttling states and which state is active.
> |
> | Greetz
> |
> | On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:40:52 +0100
> | Michael Gaber <Michael.Gaber@gmx.net> wrote:
> |
> |
> | well you can echo e.g. 200000 but it wont work, cause you can't alter
> | the cpufreq_min_freq
> |
> |
> | morpheus wrote:
> | |>This can only go down to 600 MHz.
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | | There _is_ a file in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq called
> | "scaling_min_freq" which is set to 600000 on my system.  You could try
> | setting this to a lower value if you want to go down further...I've
> | never done this though and I'm not sure if it's recommended or will
> | damange anything.  Does anyone else know?
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | | -m
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