> > > ok, I'll try that this evening. That is to say, I already run an unstable > debian, so I don't know if your procedure is still necessary (sorry, I > forgot to tell that I run a debian sid in my previous mails). >
On sid, you don't have to do any of the kernel recompilation. Things should "just work". > > > I already did this. This is a nice little program and I followed all > suggestions (most of them forced me to recompile my kernel), but this didn't > change anything. > Did Powertop show any frequency scaling going on, or was your system permanently running at its full frequency? You may want to try it with the Debian kernel again - it never asked me to recompile my kernel, and it did manage to find that frequency scaling was turned off. > > Is this still to test since I run a debian sid? Can it be that the power > management works well on testing and not with sid? > Btw, I tried the 2.6.22 precompiled kernel from sid too, but it did not > work better. > No, sid should work as well as (if not better than) testing. I'm wondering if this is just an issue with the very newest MacBooks (I have a first-generation one, and it works fine). You shouldn't have to recompile the kernel in any case with 2.6.22. Where can I go from there? > One thing you could try is adding acpi_cpufreq and cpufreq_ondemand to /etc/modules. That may enable frequency scaling if its disabled. Also, make sure all the ACPI-related packages are installed by running "tasksel" and making sure "Laptop" is selected. Tim
