Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:29:15 +0100 (CET) | From | Daniel Nofftz <> | Subject | Re: ACPI trouble (Was: Re: [patch] amd athlon cooling on kt266/266a chipset) |
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote: > > I have an ASUS A7V motherboard, similar to your ASUS A7V133. I find > that stock kernel (2.4.18-pre7) APM powers off the machine, but stock > kernel ACPI does not. However, the Intel ACPI patch, available from > http://developer.intel.com/technology/IAPC/acpi/downloads.htm against > kernel 2.4.16, does power down my machine. I was able to forward port > this to 2.4.18-pre7 without too much trouble by starting with 2.4.16, > applying the Intel ACPI patch first, and then applying kernel > patch-2.4.17 and kernel patch-2.4.18-pre7.
ok .. .maybe someone should look what the differences for the "halt" functions are ... i risked a short look in the acpi sources, but i have not the time to compare the patches at the moment ... maybe at the weekend ... but the acpi sources don't look like easy to understand :) (like many parts of ther kernel ... imha as a kernel newbee :) )
> > As to the merits of the amd_disconnect patch that started this thread, > under 2.4.18-pre7-acpi, I get an idle CPU temperature of about 48 C. > With the amd_disconnect patch, it drops to 32-35 C, wow! As > previously discussed, APM + amd_disconnect on an Athlon does not > provide any power savings, one needs ACPI + amd_disconnect.
ahh ... anopther "it works"- feedback ... :)
daniel
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