> Guess you're looking to re-use existing parts? Otherwise I'd suggest
> looking at the VIA EPIA motherboards which AFAIK don't use much power at
> all and still give reasonable-ish performance.
>
> Rob
>
Yeah, I was thinking of reusing some existing stuff. I've got most of
a P4 2.6 sony vaio, at
Chris Rowson wrote:
>>> I think powertop needs some newer software than ships with Feisty. I
>>> tried installing but got a failed dependency for libc6 2.5-5.
>>>
>>> Any ideas ?
>> Never tried it. I have an old AMD processor.
>>
>> Hwyl,
>> Neil.
>
> Meh, never mind.
>
> Looks like powertop come
> I might have a bash
> building from source to see if it works, but if not I'll just wait for
> gutsy.
>
I built powertop, but it requires a kernel > than 2.6.21 with
CONFIG_TIMER_STATS enabled to show detailed stats. It does show some
interesting stuff even without this though.
Chris
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> > I think powertop needs some newer software than ships with Feisty. I
> > tried installing but got a failed dependency for libc6 2.5-5.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
>
> Never tried it. I have an old AMD processor.
>
> Hwyl,
> Neil.
Meh, never mind.
Looks like powertop comes with gutsy
http://packages.u
On 01/07/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think powertop needs some newer software than ships with Feisty. I
> tried installing but got a failed dependency for libc6 2.5-5.
>
> Any ideas ?
Never tried it. I have an old AMD processor.
Hwyl,
Neil.
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> Hi Chris,
>
> Try looking for powertop on Intel's site, and have a look for an
> article about it on developerWorks (an IBM site, I think the base URL
> is http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks).
>
> This is a utility that lets you tune all the power management features
> of newer Intel processors.
>
On 01/07/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm thinking of setting up a Intel P4 based desktop PC at home, which
> will run Ubuntu and may spend long periods of time doing nothing or
> very little.
>
> I'm aware that CPU frequency scaling can be implemented on certain
> la
Hi folks,
I'm thinking of setting up a Intel P4 based desktop PC at home, which
will run Ubuntu and may spend long periods of time doing nothing or
very little.
I'm aware that CPU frequency scaling can be implemented on certain
laptop processors, but wondered what power management stuff is
availa
