Re: [patch] amd athlon cooling on kt266/266a chipset

[Daniel Nofftz]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

> Hi Daniel & folks,
>
> just tried your patch on my (diskless) asus a7v133 (kt133) with 1.2 GHz
> Athlon. I normally had 14% base load spend in apmd-idled and a CPU temp.
> of 45°C. After getting it to work, I see a base load of around 1% (mostly
> spend in artsd), but CPU is only 1°-2° less now :-( I hoped, it it
> would be more). Nevertheless, it is a very important patch nowadays where
> temperature is the last technical barrier, and energy saving an economic
> necessity.

hmmm ... 1°-2° lesser than apm or lesser than "without any powersafing
function" ?
do you have entered the amd_disconnect=yes flag at boot-time (LILO ?)

>
> Many thanks and greetings from Berlin to Trier ;)
>   Hans-Peter

thanks ... greetings back to you ... :)

daniel

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