Re: Questions about power management, or lack thereof (newbie alert)

From: JW <jw.a.t.centraltexasit.com>
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 13:36:28 EST

At 07:27 PM 3/22/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Better use the konsole for installations etc especially if you are allready on
>the new ipkg (in C written and much much faster). The qpikg app need a
>rewrite anyway.

I have ssh working and have been using ipkg through it some, I rather like the opie manager though.
I'm not using the C version (that I know of)

>> Also this morning I see that I did not have cpu-scale installed, could that
>> have anything to do with it? Any other power-centric packages I missed?
>
>No idea what cpu-scale is for .-).

Well I've seen some discussion of it on the ipaq list -- if I understand correctly, is can "slow down" the CPU, I think the idea is that when sleeping, the CPU doesn't need to run full bore ;-) and to save energy you can slow it down.

>But since 2 weeks apmd is neccesary for OPIE, since it uses it for suspension.
>There is a ipkg depend, but apparently there were cases where it was not
>working.

Well, it was installed. I just installed apminfo -- doubt that has anything to do with it but maybe.

> Max

Any more ideas?

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Jonathan Wilson
System Administrator
Clickpatrol.com
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
Received on Fri Mar 22 18:36:01 2002

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