Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-11-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Mattia Dongili wrote: > Yes, p4-clockmod is mostly useless for power saving but it helps > reducing the processor temperature. And this is the only driver working > for my p4 desktop. > Odd. I was unable to measure any temperature reduction either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Peter Palfrader wrote: > > How come it never outputs p4_clockmod? I use that happily on several > > different machines. > > > > I can confirm I've tried it on a machine. The performance impact was > substantial (at least if I allowed it to go t

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-11-01 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:07:24AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > >> How come it never outputs p4_clockmod? I use that happily on several > >> different machines. > >> > >> > > > > I can confirm I've tried it on a machine. The per

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-11-01 Thread Brice Goglin
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Peter Palfrader wrote: > >> How come it never outputs p4_clockmod? I use that happily on several >> different machines. >> >> > > I can confirm I've tried it on a machine. The performance impact was > substantial (at least if I allowed it to go to its lowest

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-31 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Peter Palfrader wrote: > How come it never outputs p4_clockmod? I use that happily on several > different machines. > I can confirm I've tried it on a machine. The performance impact was substantial (at least if I allowed it to go to its lowest speed); the power consumption difference was imme

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-31 Thread Per Olofsson
Peter Palfrader: > How come it never outputs p4_clockmod? I use that happily on several > different machines. It's disabled in Ubuntu with the following comment: # Disabled for now - the latency tends to be bad enough to make it # fairly pointless. # echo "FREQDRIVER=p4-clockmod" >/etc/default/p

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How come it never outputs p4_clockmod? I use that happily on several > different machines. In most workloads, p4_clockmod will have a negligable effect on power consumption and has a sufficiently high latency that it creates a noticable reduction in

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Per Olofsson wrote: > Chris Hanson: > > Probably yes, but I'd like to see it before I decide. > > Attached. I will probably change a few things though, it should > probably by default try to load the module instead of merely > outputting it. How come it never outputs p4_cloc

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-30 Thread Per Olofsson
Chris Hanson: > Probably yes, but I'd like to see it before I decide. Attached. I will probably change a few things though, it should probably by default try to load the module instead of merely outputting it. > Does this have to make it into etch? Nope. Although it would be nice, of course. --

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Hanson
Per Olofsson wrote: > Hi, > > Marco d'Itri: >> On Oct 30, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Why do you want to make a separate package for such a tiny shell script? >>> The overhead is just two much. >>> I'd propose to include it into the powermgmt-base package. >> I fully agree, it'

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-30 Thread Per Olofsson
Hi, Marco d'Itri: > On Oct 30, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why do you want to make a separate package for such a tiny shell script? > > The overhead is just two much. > > I'd propose to include it into the powermgmt-base package. > I fully agree, it's silly to create a package

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 30, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do you want to make a separate package for such a tiny shell script? > The overhead is just two much. > I'd propose to include it into the powermgmt-base package. I fully agree, it's silly to create a package for a 2 KB shell script. -- c

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Per Olofsson wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: cpufreq-detect > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: shell > Description : det

Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-29 Thread Per Olofsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cpufreq-detect Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * License : GPL Programming Lang: shell Description : detect CPU frequency control driver This