Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the athcool package.
The package description is: athcool is a small utility for enabling/disabling Powersaving mode for AMD Athlon/Duron processors. . By enabling Powersaving mode you can lower power consumption and CPU temperature when the CPU is idle. . Powersaving works only if your kernel supports ACPI (APM does not work), because athcool does only (un)set the "Disconnect enable when STPGNT detected" bits in the Chipset's Northbridge. To really save power, the STPGNT signal has to be sent when the CPU is idling. This is done by the ACPI subsystem when C2 state entered. . !!!WARNING!!! Depending on your motherboard and/or hardware components, enabling Athlon powersaving mode sometimes causes: . * noisy or distorted sound playback, * a slowdown in harddisk performance, * system locks or instability, * massive corruption of the filesystem (observed at least once). . If you met those problems, you should not use athcool. Please use athcool AT YOUR OWN RISK. . If athcool works fine for you, and you want it to run automatically on startup, please read the /usr/share/doc/athcool/README.Debian file. Unfortunately, I only own one athlon-based system, which means I'm unable to test athcool on most supported systems. Hence, I'd like some volunteers to test athcool on as many different systems as possible, and to try to reproduce the bugs that are reported. If you own an athlon-based computer and want to help me with athcool, please send me an e-mail and tell me what kind of motherboard/CPU you own. FYI, I currently need someone with a VIA KT600 or KT400 chipset to try to reproduce bug #276757 on both kind of systems. Thanks in advance, Nicolas Boullis
