From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:45:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bj0rrha.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200602031714.33828.lists@ptfd.org
"Michael W. Holdeman" <lists@ptfd.org> writes:
> I named it vmware_script and placed it in /etc/vmware, and execute
> it to run vmware. It works great as long as I execute as root :
> chmod o+w /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate So that as a
> user you can execute the max_cstate command.
>
> This works but whenever you boot the laptop you have to su to root
> and execute teh chmod again or the state will not be enforced and
> vmware is deathly slow.
There may be better ways but one would be to put it in
/etc/conf.d/local.start
and put that into the init setup with
rc-update add local default
Be sure to put a & after the command or it will hang up boot process.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-03 22:14 [gentoo-user] VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300 Michael W. Holdeman
2006-02-03 22:45 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2006-02-03 23:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael W. Holdeman
2006-02-03 23:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2006-02-04 23:33 ` Richard Fish
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