Well it looks like this thread has gone to the modem topic, but i have a question about the ACPI stuff. I am running rh9 on my 5660 and was actually able to recompile my kernel and supposedly i have ACPI in it now. i am running 2.4.22 with the correct acpi patch. my boot line has 'acpi=on' (even though im betting it defaults to on). i think that my problem may be with apm. i think i read somewhere that you cannot run both. apm is currently working becuase i am getting battery status information. i dont know too much about the '/proc' filesystem but there is an apm file in there but no acpi folder. i dont want to be a retard and post my whole kernel '.config' but i can if anyone thinks that would help. it is a vanilla kernel patched only with ACPI.
Any help you all can give just to get even the processor throttling working would be much appreciate.
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okay so after plenty of work i have acpi working on my 5660... did anyone else have to use the 'acpi=force' option because it said that their bios was PRE 92... does that mean what i think it means... that the kernel thought my bios was from before 1992? do i have to update it?
also, does anyone have a nice list of commands for acpi? i have really just seen the processor throttling ones. stuff like 'echo -n 6 > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling' to throttle the cpu to some state (6=75%) . lets take the "performance" file as an example is there a similar "echo -n 1 >... " command to change to performace state 1? currently my states are identical... how can i change that and WHAT SHOULD THEY BE? for instance this is what my performace listing:
[root@montag CPU0]# cat performance
state count: 2
active state: P0
states:
*P0: 9999 MHz, 99999 mW, 999 uS
P1: 9999 MHz, 99999 mW, 999 uS
so it is in state 0... but look at the CPU information... ( i am assuming the MHz column refers to cpu) does that really say 10GHz as my design cpu speed? and it is set to use 100 watts of power... no wonder my battery goes so quick. oh yeah... and what is a microS?
next onto the throttleing... i can throttle efficiently enough like i said with the echo thing... but when i unplug my lappy it changes to setting T4... once at this setting... it cannot be changed. how can i change that... this is the prime time that i would want to be able to throttle the cpu and it is the only time that i cannot.....
i suppose that everything else is inconsequential... i have no fan info... and what am i going to do about the thermal stuff if i cant change the other things....
i realize that this sounds a lot like a complaint about ACPI, but i like it much better than apm and just want to learn how to use it... so if yall know anything that would be great.
