On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:01:14PM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > Chris Jones <cjns1...@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, ...
Thanks. Modprobed everything in sight that looked like it might have something to do with this issue, and lsmod now gives me this: cpufreq_ondemand 6476 0 cpufreq_userspace 3172 0 cpufreq_stats 3776 0 freq_table 4224 2 cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats cpufreq_powersave 1856 0 cpufreq_conservative 5960 0 I proceeded to apt-get cpufreqd cpufrequtils again and cpufreqd dies with a: Starting CPU Frequency daemon: cpufreqd failed! CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...disabled, governor not available...done. Looks like a lost cause to me. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
