Athlon

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:44:11 -0500
> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:37 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > Anyone using Athlon Mobility CPUs in laptops running SUSE 9?
> >
> > Not SUSE, but Gentoo. I'm using the LAPTOP-MODE patch in kernel 2.6.1
> > compiled with cpufreq support. Works GREAT. Target laptop is a compaq
> > 700us... I'm able to throttle the cpu speed from 500mhz to 1.2gig on the
> > fly with the laptop-mode patch allowing the harddrive to sleep for longer
> > periods. I can run this particular flopper in low-E-mode for nearly 5
> > hours before the battery poops out....  Thats about twice what I had
> > before the changes.
> >
> > Pretty darn good!
>
> Better than my luck. I have an Acer 1350. The original install of SUSE9
> installed a kernel (2.4.21-99-athlon) for the AMD. The install worked fine.
> However, when using the computer, it would freeze at some point. Usually
> within 5 minutes of booting. Often less. So, I reinstalled with ACPI off.

ACPI support in anything before 2.4.23 is _VERY_ bad.

> That made the freezing stop. However, I think the machine is not running at
> its best. There is no battery info, as the power stuff was disabled. And,
> the Acer does not seem to beep or warn when the power starts to get low, as
> my old Dell did. So, I must run on power all the time as I have no
> indication when power will end. I upgraded the kernel to one SUSE released
> to correct unspecified ACPI problems (2.4.21-144-athlon). I tried enabling
> ACPI on the kernel command line, but it was worse than the previous kernel.
> It would not even boot.

Use 2.4.24.

> I may try a 2.6 kernel. SUSE provide an early one. I do not know if it has
> any laptop patch. I will have to check that.

THat might help.  ACPI in 2.6.1 is roughly equivalent in 2.4.23.
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