laptop & cpu

[Max Andersen]

Bas van Gils wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:48:13PM +0200, Bas van Gils wrote:
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>>A while ago I migrated from another distro (SourceMage) to ubuntu. Pretty
>>happy with it. While I was still running SMGL, the CPU of my laptop would slow
>>down as soon as the powercord was pulled from the laptop (i.e., when I'm on
>>the road). A friend helped me set it up a while ago but I completely forgot
>>what was involved. Is this also possible on ubuntu? Any pointers?
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I have got the packages : acpi, acpid, acpi-support and the in-kernel 
support for ibm_acpi (http://ibm-acpi.sf.net), that's in kernel 2.6.10 
by default. I have an IBM laptop.

I do get a speed up on the processor, because of my screensaver 
(GLMatrix), but otherwise, it's pretty slient.

hth,

Sicnerely
Max Andersen
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