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    Re: HowTo: Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life

    Will undervolting affect the performance of the laptopz/ It seems to me that if it is using less power, it will be less powerful.

    Also, I was wondering if my battery might not be fully enabled. I have an extra battery pack and in Vista I was able to get 10 hours, with Ubuntu, I get about 4.5 hours and I am assuming that Vista uses more power than Ubuntu.
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    Re: HowTo: Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life

    Quote Originally Posted by M4rotku View Post
    Will undervolting affect the performance of the laptopz/ It seems to me that if it is using less power, it will be less powerful.
    Performance will be the same. The power you saved was just wasted before, did nothing good.


    Quote Originally Posted by M4rotku View Post
    Also, I was wondering if my battery might not be fully enabled. I have an extra battery pack and in Vista I was able to get 10 hours, with Ubuntu, I get about 4.5 hours and I am assuming that Vista uses more power than Ubuntu.
    Is the second battery shown, i.e. in the tray icon or in /proc/acpi/battery?

    Win might be a little better in powersaving, but still the difference you post is huge!

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    Re: HowTo: Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life

    Is the VID read from the script or from the chip? I have a T8300 in my T61, and the script bugged out on me, because even when both cores were fully loaded, the script reached 0 on the highest clock level without a crash.

    Also, there are two problems (typos) with the guide. One is when you point to the original acpi-cpufreq.ko, you have two kernel/ directories. The second one is when you talk about loading the second core; the command burnmmx does nothing, but burnMMX works. Other than that, extremely helpful

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    Re: HowTo: Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life

    Can you provide some hard numbers on what the power savings is like before and after on your machine. Something like cleanly booting the machine, logging in, unplugging the AC power, waiting for a few minutes and then running powertop like this (don't touch the machine for 5 minutes after this):

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    sudo powertop -d -t 300
    Having the average watts used during a 5 minute powertop run on an idle system would be an interesting baseline. I'm interested in trying this out but only if there is a noticeable drop in power usage.
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    Re: HowTo: Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life

    I was in step 2.b.1 and I recieved the following error when i entered the command.

    command:
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    sudo cp /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko.old
    Error:
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    cp: cannot stat `/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko': No such file or directory
    If this file doesn't exist, then can I still undervolt? And how would I go about doing so if able.
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    Re: HowTo: Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life

    Quote Originally Posted by M4rotku View Post
    I was in step 2.b.1 and I recieved the following error when i entered the command.

    command:
    Code:
    sudo cp /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko.old
    Error:
    Code:
    cp: cannot stat `/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko': No such file or directory
    If this file doesn't exist, then can I still undervolt? And how would I go about doing so if able.
    Seems as if you're not using acpi-cpufreq. Then you can't use this how-to. What did step 1 give you?
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    lsmod | grep acpi_cpufreq
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    Re: HowTo: Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life

    hi all

    my system uses the speedstep.centrino module.. is there a way to force it to use the acpi freq module?

    i have a pentium-m 740 (1.73mhz)

    thnks

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    Talking Re: HowTo: Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life

    Thanks for the help with my cpu--it works like a charm and doesn't overheat anymore! Would you know anything about undervolting the graphics card? It gets fairly hot, too.

    At any rate, thanks for the incredible help.

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    Re: HowTo: Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life

    Quote Originally Posted by M4rotku View Post
    I was in step 2.b.1 and I recieved the following error when i entered the command.

    command:
    Code:
    sudo cp /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko.old
    Error:
    Code:
    cp: cannot stat `/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko': No such file or directory
    If this file doesn't exist, then can I still undervolt? And how would I go about doing so if able.
    There is a typo in the command on first post tutorial: kernel/ is there twice, whereas the path has only one folder named kernel above arch/!

    BTW Thanks a lot for this really interesting tutorial!
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    Quote Originally Posted by aldeby View Post
    There is a typo in the command on first post tutorial: kernel/ is there twice, whereas the path has only one folder named kernel above arch/!

    BTW Thanks a lot for this really interesting tutorial!
    Thanks for pointing out, I corrected the how-to.
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