Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:54:43 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Power Saving |
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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
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