Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:40:11 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > >>On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> >> >>>I would like to make my Etch box use less power, but I'm having a hard >>>time consolidating all the information I'm finding. Is there a package I >>>can install or a web page I can read that is a gentle guide to reducing my >>>power usage? >>> >>> >>> >>A good place to start may be something like the laptop-howto. >> >>What power are you trying to reduce? Beware spinning down drives to >>reduce power; spinning up reduces drive life. >> >> > >Hi Doug, > >Thanks for your reply. It is a self-built Athlon desktop, though I assume >much of the advice in the laptop-howto will be relevant. I will take a >look. I'm happy to provide more specs on the box if that will be helpful. > >I'm not really sure how to answer your question. I know that spinning down >drives is not such a good idea, and that I can reduce processor speed when >idle (though how I don't know), but beyond that I don't have a good idea >of what options are available to me. > >Thanks, > >Reid > > > > reid, athcool saves both temperature and power. Its a very simple script, written for athlons.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show athcool Package: athcool Priority: extra Section: misc Installed-Size: 104 Maintainer: Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.3.10-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), pciutils (>= 1:2.1.11-11) Filename: pool/main/a/athcool/athcool_0.3.10-1_i386.deb Size: 15508 MD5sum: 9132b0b9182d88272e4611a5a6ebc635 SHA1: c0eab09abcd0b166410bd2ff39fb1618df72ce16 SHA256: 662230d075c0c83295e7327fc837b8c708453899b0e849dcbcacfe4fc7aeedd7 Description: tool to enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
