On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:34 +0200, aowen@swissonline.ch wrote:
> hi
>
> i've got a asus aj8s (intel duo t7200) notebook with debian etch
> (2.6.18-4). apparantly kernels from 17-19 dont work with cpufreq. is
> their a fix or at least a other way of reducing the processor speed?
The recommended approach to CPU frequency management for all modern
Intel processors, according to 'powertop'[1], seems to be to use the
'ondemand' governor.
echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Apparently for AMD processors the "conservative" governor is slightly
better.
Cheers,
Andrew McMillan.
[1] http://www.linuxpowertop.org/
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