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Re: scaling cpu frequency on new ibook 2.2?



Adam Lazur (zal@debian.org) schrieb:

> Florian Feigenbutz (florian.f@web.de) said:
> > Hi, as I was checking some files in the /cat dir for fun some days ago
> > I saw the following lines in "/proc/cpufreq":
> > 
> > $ cat /proc/cpufreq 
> >      minimum CPU frequency - maximum CPU frequency - policy
> > CPU  0  400000 kHz ( 57 %) -   700000 kHz (100 %)  - performance
> > 
> > Does this mean that my G3 700MHz CPU is always running in performance
> > mode no matter what I'm doing? Is there any possibility to change this
> > setting to a kind of "battery" instead of "performance policy"?
> 
> Here's what I use in /etc/power/pwrctl-local on my 700 MHz ibook:
> 
> ac)
>         [ -f /proc/cpufreq ] && \
>             echo 400000:700000:performance > /proc/cpufreq
> battery)
>         [ -f /proc/cpufreq ] && \
>             echo 400000:700000:powersave > /proc/cpufreq
> 
> It seems to work alright and cuts the mhz back to 400 in
> /proc/cpuinfo...
> 
> You can echo stuff in other formats to cpufreq, but when I played with
> it I ended up with 400MHz - 400MHz at one point, so I stopped playing
> for fear of breaking something ;)

Does this only work for 2.2 ibooks or also for the ibook2?

mfG Johannes

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