Re: Power management on older laptop.

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com>:
>  This is an old Dell Inspiron 7500 with an Intel PIII - (Coppermine)
>  running debian 'lenny'. 
> 
>  The hardware supports an early version of the SpeedStep technology that
>  makes it possible to switch clocking between 650MHz and 500MHz. This is
>  normally done via a BIOS option where the focus appears to be on battery
>  life.
> 
>  Since the batteries are long dead and will not be replaced, I'm more
>  looking into trying to lower the laptop's temperature a bit by having it
>  either throttle the CPU, or put to sleep whatever components are not
>  strictly necessary, when I'm not using the system.. or doing what I'm

I think you're on the right track.  Here's what I have on AMD-64 bit.

(0) infidel /home/keeling_ lsmod | grep cpu
cpufreq_userspace       8452  0
cpufreq_stats           9120  0
cpufreq_powersave       6400  0
cpufreq_ondemand       11792  2
cpufreq_conservative    11784  0
freq_table              9344  3 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8

Replace that powernow_k8 with what you need, ...


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