Hello.  No, I don't have estd installed.  Are there any other programs
in the standard distribution which would set this value, perhaps without my
knowledge?  Right now, I'm running NetBSD-3 because the NetBSD-4 kernels
can't drive the pcmcia slots for some reason.
-Brian
On Aug 26,  7:06pm, Daniel Carosone wrote:
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} On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:56:24PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
} > 	Hello.  I've just acquired a Dell  Latitude D400 laptop which supports
} > speestep technology and which appears to have a working speedstep driver
} > under NetBSD 3.x and 4.x.   In attempting to write a powerd script which
} > reduces the speed of the CPU when the machine is on battery power, I've
} > noticed something strange.
} > My script tries to slow the cpu down by setting
} > machdep.est.frequency.target to the desired value, in my case, 800MHZ.
} > this appears to work, and the CPU slows down, for a little while, i.e. a
} > minute or so.
} > 	Then, after a minute, the target value climes from 800 back to 1000,
} > then to 1200, and back to 1400, which is as high as it can go.  This
} > happens without any  obvious intervention from me. =20
} > 	Can anyone explain why it is that this value doesn't stay where I set
} > it?
} 
} Sounds like you have estd or something else running that's also
} changing the value.
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} Dan.
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