Re: Pentium-M

[Ducrot Bruno <ducrot@poupinou.org>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:39:17PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:17, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:07, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> > > > Yeah, could you send these? My stuff somehow doesn't work. I use
> > > > this: echo 0:600000:600000:powersave > /proc/cpufreq
> > >
> > > You are using a user space daemon which change the frequency on the
> > > fly.
> > 
> > You're right, this was due to cpufreqd changing it back. If I disable 
> > that, it stays at the 600Mhz-600Mhz range. But still, /proc/cpuinfo 
> > always gives 
> > cpu MHz         : 1294.774
> > 
> > So, it's not working, is it?
> 
> This looks like its not working for some reason although 600Mhz-600Mhz
> and 600Mhz-1300Mhz should be the same when you are using powersave. With
> power save you are supposed to always get the lower frequency (at list
> on my laptop).

I use in a script something like:
echo 0%100%powersave
and
echo 0%100%performance
(with the same script, I enable/disable laptop-mode, amongst other
things)
and all that is done via acpid.

> Could you post the output of dmesg? It is supposed to have near the top
> information about the cpufreq data detected. For example on mine:
> (this is after a patch to fix a bug with the voltage scaling not being
> read correctly on powernow so that I will also get voltage scaling at
> the lower frequencies).
> 

I doubt speedstep-centrino will dump the states.

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