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Topic: DSL 2.0 vs 3.0, Better USB and ACPI

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Juanito

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Posted: 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.

Zucca

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Posted: July 26 2006,14:21

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

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Posted: 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.....

Juanito

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Posted: 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...

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Posted: 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.

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