DSL 2.0 vs 3.0

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: DSL 2.0 vs 3.0
started by: Juanito

Posted by Juanito on July 26 2006,11:12

I just upgraded from DSL 2.0 to 3.0

With the USB2 drivers loaded at boot, DSL starts much, much faster from my USB stick now - good job.

The ACPI drivers are also loaded at boot (I previously had to load these and the USB2 drivers using a script) - also good.

Does anyone know of an applet which can be used to control speed-step settings (rather than typing echo 5 > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance), spin down the HD, switch off the screen, etc etc - wmacpi_1.99r7.dsl is not that much use for this and my laptop battery empties fast under DSL.

Posted by Zucca on July 26 2006,14:21

I need to upgrade to 3.x soon... I really need ACPI for my laptop.

Posted by evilbstrd666 on July 28 2006,00:31

Hey - what does the '5' stand for, and what are the other settings for that?

It sounds a little painful, but it would mean that between using speedstep and the "toram" cheatcode, my notebook should last insane amounts of time off it's battery.....

Posted by Juanito on July 28 2006,09:26

My understanding is that "5" is the slowest speedstep setting and you can set it back to the fastest setting by using "0" in the same command.

There is also a "throttling" (limits the number of instructions processed in a given amount of time?) parameter as in echo 7 > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling - again this is set back to the fastest speed by using "0" in the same command.

Whilst the above helps battery life, using DSL from a USB drive and being able to spin the HD down would save a lot more battery life - if only I could figure out how to do it...

Posted by evilbstrd666 on July 29 2006,20:02

Thank you much for the info!

The way I figure is, as long as you load DSL to ram, then you really shouldn't have to use the CD after that, and for office apps and a web browser it shouldn't be too battery or processor taxing.

I have had a one consistent problem with booting from USB - no computer I own will do it. Not even my notebook here, which is rather new in comparison.

Oh well, mini-CD's work good too.