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Revision as of 13:41, 11 April 2005
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general
Linux supports Dynamic Frequency Scaling for ThinkPads with mobile Pentium III, Pentium 4 and Pentium M processors.
configuring the kernel
2.4 kernels
Todo...
2.6 kernels
You need to enable the cpu frequency scaling for your kernel:
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
The 2.6.x Debian kernel packages have this enabled already.
You need to load a governor:
set "CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y" set "CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=y" set "CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y" or load module "cpufreq_userspace" set "CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y"
In Debian kernels it should all be available as modules.
- If you have a Coppermine-piix-smi based Thinkpads like from the A2x, X2x and T2x series you need to enable the speedstep-ich driver in the kernel and load it if it's built as module. You might want to look at this page.
- If you have a p4-class celeron based Thinkpad like the R40e you might want to look at this page
configuring SpeedStep daemons
Don't forget to enable the userspace governor to have a userspace daemon do the frequency scaling. If it is built as module, load it as cpufreq-userspace. Note that since 2.6.10, there is also the ondemand governor in the kernel, which replaces any userspace daemon for cpu scaling and works very well.
There are plenty of userspace frequency scaling daemons available:
