From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GAu5m-0002Fm-8n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:51:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k79JlKqr005409; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:47:20 GMT Received: from barinformatik.ch (barinformatik.ch [81.201.202.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k79JfCFO015456 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:41:13 GMT Received: from [84.72.30.136] (HELO [192.168.0.7]) by barinformatik.ch (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 88264490 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:29:14 +0200 Message-ID: <44DA37AC.4020802@rhone.ch> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:29:48 +0200 From: Tobias Heinzen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20060214) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Throttling State won't change from command in Gentoo Power Management Guide References: <012801c6bb8d$5e6814a0$5500a8c0@annie> In-Reply-To: <012801c6bb8d$5e6814a0$5500a8c0@annie> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 OpenPGP: id=03EA069B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7696f346-5829-415a-a762-b22aac3a5831 X-Archives-Hash: 9375052ad507db869412f50e99936a36 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Richard You can also throttle the speed of your CPU with the command $cpufreq-set -u 800000 This will set the upper bound to 800MHz, meaning your CPU won't be going any faster than those 800MHz. This is the way I am doing it. Not very nice but it works for me. Richard Watson wrote: > Hi - I've been setting my laptop for power management by following the > Power Management Guide and have successfully got cpufreqd running. > However the CPU still gets hot on large compiles. I thought maybe > changing the throttling state would cool things off but when I run the > command from the power management guide > > echo -n "0:T1" > /proc/acpi/processor/C000/limit > > it returns the error > > -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument > > I tried opening the file with nano -w and got the same message when > saving the changes. Can anybody give me any help? > > Thanks, Richard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRNo3qFPi/7ID6gabAQIragP/eNf15m+puj4OosNoiOFHzvqew/V2/EkX x1l/p1hxbAPXgvtxV/o+XeGunee+rDwM/FrKuQGyC10ZvwEBEl9VBxJNNQbecr0K qEE0JNZwMuySGgyi9XBWwX6PZ+6XEtys/+2SIYSv0JDHcjpkOXMdFgDzYQb8ZagI 3+Uu7ThnSFA= =8ubk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list