Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755815AbXKTAyy (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:54:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752470AbXKTAyr (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:54:47 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35827 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752396AbXKTAyq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:54:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:54:43 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Stephen Clark Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Power Saving Message-ID: <20071120005443.GB9243@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Stephen Clark , linux-kernel References: <47422D3B.8080704@seclark.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47422D3B.8080704@seclark.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 28 On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:41:31PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: > Hello List, > > I am trying to get throttling to work on the following processor I think by throttling, you actually mean changing frequency/voltage ? (throttling is something else, where the CPU skips every n cycles, which doesn't actually save any power) > with linux 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 with no luck. wow. that's a prehistoric kernel. > AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ you lose. Only the mobile athlons supported scaling their speed. And even then, only if the BIOS supported it with the correct tables. (Typically this means, "only laptops"). Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/