Re: VIA C7 / VIA PC-1 (PC2500) anyone?

[Claas Langbehn]

Michael Tokarev wrote on LKML:
> Wander Winkelhorst wrote:
>   
> > On 6/12/07, Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >     
> > > I bought a VIA PC2500 board a few days ago - this
> > > new series of their mobos,
> > >
> > > This beast looks nice - after replacing their cooling
> > > system (that had a small fan on it) with larger but
> > > fanless, -- it becomes a almost real PC (1500MHz CPU),
> > > equipped with quite nice crypto and multimedia abilities,
> > > but with very low power consumption and very quiet.
> > >
> > > But the thing is - it doesn't quite work.
> > >       
> > Try disabling CPU frequency scaling, VIA CPU's often have problems
> > with changing their frequency.
> >     
>
> Hmm.  I wonder how to *enable* it in the first place.. ;)
> e_powersaver.ko and acpi_cpufreq gives "No such device"
>
>   
cat /proc/cpuinfo and have a look at the flags. Does it support "eps"?

If not then e_powersaver is not possible. If cpufreq with acpi P-states
does not work either then your mainboard/CPU does not support
power saving.
You might get in contact with Rafal Bilinski who wrote e_powersaver.



claas
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