[SM-Users] problems reinstalling

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Fri Jul 29 12:44:41 EDT 2005


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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
>> If the notebook is not very old, it would throttle CPU to half the speed
>> if it's running on battery. Maybe you can try booting from the CD while
>> unplugged, and look around the system, including the kernel config file,
>> to see what can be done?
>
> I loaded a bunch of modules on booting and can now see the temperature.
> Does ACPI automatically throttle the CPU if it can read the temperature?
>
> It's predicted to thunder - there's a thunder now - so I think I'll turn
> it off and leave it for Sunday.

I have cpufreqd running to do that. I don't believe ACPI will do it on
it's own as ACPI is just an interface.

- -sandalle

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