Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2576 mails)

[peter nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 25 February 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Wednesday February 25 2009, John Lange wrote:
> > My Laptop CPU frequency scales even when plugged into AC power and
> > I'd like to disable that feature.
> >
> > How do I do that in OpenSUSE 11.1? The "Power Management" tool in
> > "Control Center" only has options for the display and suspend
> > settings, nothing for the CPU (It used to be there didn't it?).
> >
> > The CPU frequency widget in the toolbar also does not have an option
> > to disable scaling.
>
> KPowerSave does indeed have a section for configuring the CPU frequence
> policy. Unless something is amiss along the way in detecting your
> hardware's capabilities and that section is incorrectly disabled,
> that's where you'd go. If it is disabled and you're sure your hardware
> has frequency scaling, then possibly something lower-level is messed up
> and KPowerSave doesn't think it can control CPU frequency.
>
> I have one machine with CPU frequency policy control running 10.3 and
> KPowersave offers me the pertinent controls and one, running 11.1 that
> does not have such capability and there KPowersave doesn't offer me
> those controls.
>
> Unless... Does a Pentium 4 have CPU frequency control?
>
> -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 15
> model           : 3
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
> stepping        : 3
> ...
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
> constant_tsc pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl cid
> -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
>
> Maybe KPowersave isn't working right for me, either? Should I have
> control over CPU frequency policy on this machine?
>
> > ...
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > John Lange
>
> Randall Schulz

It does not work on my Compaq Presario Laptop either under 11.1 but did under 
10.3  that uses an AMD Turion 64 bit CPU  

Yet another 11.1 bork   if it was not for the fact that i am completely sick 
of redoing configs all the time i would go back to 10.3 and KDE 3.5.9 that 
just worked with no nonsense

Pete.


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Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam  no Gates, no Windows, and an
Apache inside.)


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