Re: PowerNow in mobile AthlonXP

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"antic_eye" <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi there,
> 
> I googled all the web for a solution, so I hope you could help me. I
> have a PackardBell Laptop with a mobile athlon xp inside. I installed
> FreeBSD 5.2.1 3 weeks ago and everything works fine. Even the screen
> flickering under x I fixed (it lasts me one week :o)).
> 
> My problem is, that I dont know how to trottle the cpu frequency. Linux
> has the cpufreqd. Is there anything appropriate in BSD? ACPI is up and
> running (expect the StandBy mode - it doesn't work)
[snip]

Read 'man acpi' and search for 'speed' . You want to read about two
    sysctls:

    hw.acpi.cpu.performance_speed
    hw.acpi.cpu.economy_speed

I have a very different laptop (dell inspiron 5k w/pentium III at
    600mhz), but I can throttle my cpu clockspeed by:

    # sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.performance_speed=1
    hw.acpi.cpu.performance_speed: 8 -> 1

'sysctl -a | grep acpi.cpu' is also useful.
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