anyone get cpufreq working

[Tuija]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 08:10, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Troy Campano wrote:
> > Thank you very much Satish.
> > This worked like a charm. I have a P4 mobile.
> >
> > Just a question, do you know why checking out the CPU in ACPI still
> > shows it at full speed?
>
> I use APM; ACPI never worked for me on a ThinkPad T40 (With fedora
> kernels since beta stage). The battery is always at zero; suspend
> doesn't work. I just tried again with 2163 kernel - and it 'panics' at
> bootup. 2154 boots fine (with the above mentioned issues)
>
> > I guess I'm just looking for a sure way to make sure my CPU is
> > running at 50% now.
>
> I check with 'grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo' - and notice the freq change in
> there.
>
I use powernowd and I compile it from source, but I think I saw rpm-package
somewhere also.
If I understand correctly it uses sysfs interface and requires 2.6 kernel.
Once started it monitors cpu load and increase or decrease mhz's depend
on load. My mobile celeron (P4) uses seven steps, if system is idling mhz will
drop to 187mhz and from that it increased step by step til the max which is
in my case 1.5ghz, seven steps then between 187mhz and 1500mhz.
I haven't got any errors yet but instead I have got longer battery life and
decreased heating.

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~tt