CPU throttling

[Graham North]

If I install 5.x instead does it provide similar support?
G/


Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:13:05AM -0700, Graham North wrote:
>  
>
>>ACPI Advice  CPU freq management are kind of new to me and I will be 
>>setting up a brand new motherboard with a sempron 3100+ which has power 
>>throttling capabilities.   I want to capture this if possible - CPU 
>>throttling was a key  factor in its choice.
>>
>>I intend to install as i386 initially.   Do I need to load any specific 
>>drivers in order to enable AMD's on-chip power management?  Can someone 
>>tell me what is built into the kernel and/or what needs to be added?  I 
>>believe that ACPI  is part of the kernel?  Does it just auto-detect and 
>>provide a "ready to run - right out of the box"?   Is it worth waiting a 
>>couple of weeks for 6.1 to be released or are these features solid 
>>already in an updated 6.0?
>>    
>>
>
>"device cpufreq" in kernel and powerd_enable="YES" in rc.conf
>
>It's worth using 6.1 on general grounds, but this support has been in
>6.x for some time.
>
>Kris
>  
>

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Graham North
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www.soleado.ca


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