Hi Alessandro, > 2008/4/30 Juerg Haefliger <juergh at gmail.com>: > > Hi Alessandro, > Hi Juerg, > > > > What driver do you mean? Where is it? > It's a VIA initiative: > http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=2088 Hmm... Not very useful at the moment. I'm curious to see if anything good ever comes out of it. VIA is notoriously tight lipped about their stuff... > > > Have you tried the latest kernel and the e_powersaver module? It > > claims it supports C7-D. > Yes, I did. mobprobe tells me "No such device". > > It seems like there are three models of C7-D CPU's: C7-D Model A > (1.5/2 GHz) and model D (1.5 Ghz) don't support PowerSaver, C7-D Model > D (1.8/2 GHz) support PowerSaver (P-States P0-P1). I own a "Model A" > C7-D. OK, not good I guess. > > > Can you change the freq in the BIOS? > My motherboard provides a mechanism to change VID voltage when the CPU > reaches high temperatures but I can't do it manually. It also seems to be able to throttle the CPU when it gets hot. Maybe you can play around with those parameters and set the temp threshold low so that it always throttles. Page 54 of the manual also shows some BIOS settings for CPU clock and ratio. Have you played with those? ...juerg > > > ...juerg > Bye, Alessandro. >
