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Re: Possible problem with ACPI



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Thank you very much for your reply.

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 15:59, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:07:30PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:

> a P4M have only 2 frequency/voltage settings via speedstep. 
> Throttling is another technique to lower the frequency (somehow) but
> voltage won't change, so power saving is not actually a win especially
> if the ACPI idle loop take place.
> [...]
> > So, the only driver that gives me a nice range of frequencies is 
> > p4-clockmod.
>
> But is not so usefull for power saving (though it may be helpfull in
> case of passive cooling).

Thanks for educating me. I'll switch to the speedstep-ich driver.

> > I'm having another problem, which is that linux ACPI doesn't seem to
> > recognize my fan properly. The state is always off, even if I can
> > clearly hear the fan running. (Not sure if this is related.)
> > /proc/acpi/fan/FAN$ cat state
> > status:                  off
>
> For that one, I need a dump of the acpi tables.

Hmmm. If you mean the output from acpidmp, that was already included from my 
first mail :-)
> > The output from acpidmp is available from:
> > http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/toshiba/acpidmp.out.bz2

If you need something else, please let me know.

Cheers,
Frans Pop
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