[Debian-eeepc-devel] [Acpi4asus-user] eeepc-live prerelease image

[Corentin Chary]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Darren Salt
<linux at youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I demand that Juha Heinanen may or may not have written...
>
>> Darren Salt writes:
>>>> looks like /etc/rcS.d/S18eeepc-acpi-scripts is run.  is there a way to
>>>> know that the overclocking factor currently is?
>>> To know that it's what?
>
>> bios allows me to set overclocking factor from 05% to 30%.  it would be
>> nice if it would be possible to check from running linux rather than from
>> bios what the current value is.
>
> It seems likely that it's readable and, probably, writeable via some ACPI
> mechanism. You'd best talk to the acpi4asus people about this. (Cc'ing
> appropriately.)
>
> [For reference: 1101HA. Test image at
>  http://people.debian.org/~synrg/debian-eeepc/eeepc-live/binary.img .]

It's not related to cpufv ?
Could you send me the dsdt ?

>>>> directory /sys/devices/platform/eeepc does not exist,
>>> eeepc-laptop not loaded?
>
>> perhaps it wasn't in the test image system.
>
> It's there...

If you get a newer bios, you'll need to boot with acpi_osi="Linux"

>> in lenny it does exist and contains the same number 769.  however, looks
>> like the number is not changing when i change the overclocking factor from
>> bios.
>
> That's expected; that's only selecting whether it's overclocked, underclocked
> or neither.
>



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