Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

trio · Posted: Tue 09 Mar 2010, 20:37 Post subject:

niekin,

If you use the latest version, there's a refresh modules button (click then restart)

to do it manually, edit to empty the file /root/Startup/start_cpu_freq then reboot

Ps: do you use pupsave from another puppy install?

Anniekin · Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 186

Yes.

The pupsave file is from Barebones 431 to which I added programs and remastered.

Anniekin · Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 186

What does it mean?

Did I mess up?

Is this bad?

Is my puppy screwed?

elraven · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 80 Location: wnc-usa

just wanted to drop a line and say ,it's working on my cpmpaq presario 2.5gig rig . It runs nice and smooth in BigMike's Bruno pup , and i can see results by checking the hardinfo .
super nice stuff
elraven Razz

trio

trio · Posted: Sun 14 Mar 2010, 22:16 Post subject: Re: cpu frequency scaling

TomRhymer · Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 95

I'm running on an Acer Aspire One AOD-150 model with an Atom 270 processor. I was never able to get this program to work correctly on 4.3 and earlier puppies, the only setting that it would accept is generic, which didn't seem to affect the battery life at all.

On the newest Puppies, like 4.4 and Lucid, I can use the Pentium 4 setting and it does work and give me quite a bit better battery life. One odd problem, if the tool is set to generic, it then will not let me switch to the Pentium 4 setting short of deleting my save file and starting from scratch. Is there any way to turn it off?

trio · Posted: Sun 02 May 2010, 02:36 Post subject:

Tom,

If you use the latest version, there's a refresh modules button (click then restart/reboot)

to do it manually, edit to empty the file /root/Startup/start_cpu_freq then reboot

TomRhymer · Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 95

Thanks. After I posted, I tried that after reading previous comments. It does work in Lupo. I found out that the problem in PupEEE is related to something else. Thanks for your help and for making this utility in the first place.

OverDrive · Posted: Thu 03 Jun 2010, 22:34 Post subject:

Trio, I'm not sure you have been made aware, So I am just letting you know, Your wonderful little utility (btw, Thank You for this) is not working correctly with quirky 1.2rc.

I and a few other users are reporting that we can't get *any* module to activate when using it in quirky1.2.

Whereas we were having no problems in 4.31.

We've been hacking quirky by copying a known good start_cpu_freq from 4.31 over to quirky and then everything works fine. Any ideas?

Overdrive

Edit: add link to thread.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55417

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rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 05 Jun 2010, 06:44 Post subject:

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1531 Location: The Blue Marble

Hi trio,

Based on hints from rcrsn51 above, I've taken the liberty to fix up your code and bump the version to 1.3-3. The pet is attached here. It's only one line change in cpu_func file.

It will work whether or not modprobe.conf is moved to /etc/modprobe.d

cheers!

edoc · Posted: Sat 17 Jul 2010, 14:13 Post subject:

Questions:

1. Might this help with a chronic overheating problem in an Acer Aspire 5535 laptop?

2. Might this help with a chronic overheating problem in a Panasonic Toughbook CF-28 laptop?

3. Can this be modified to auto-detect the CPU and suggest a best-setting?

The CF-29 uses an Intel Pentium M 1.3GHz CPU

The Acer Aspire 5535 uses an AMD Athlon x2 64 2.1GHz CPU.

The CF-28 uses a Mobile Intel Pentium III M 1.0 GHz CPU