Subject: Re: SpeedStep problem
To: Dennis den Brok <d.den.brok@uni-bonn.de>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: current-users
Date: 09/08/2006 01:39:28
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:25:41PM +0200, Dennis den Brok wrote:
>=20
> Sorry, but why exactly is the retrieval of speedstep-/powernow!-related d=
ata not accomplished via ACPI, which seems possible, according to what I've=
 read?

It should be done when available, but it's not always available.  The
world is not a laptop, and even in laptop land it's not a given.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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