From: "madodel" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:24:13 -0400
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Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] ACPI/APM support on T61
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Jon Harrison wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:20:26 -0400, madodel wrote:
> 
>> When I ordered this from IBM/Lenovo the only option was the 6 
>> cell. 
> 
> I bought mine in April.
> 
> Re: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/ticket/252
> 
> What is the SetGetThrtl and the other command (or where can I find
> out about it)?  

In the full ACPI zip packages on the BetaZone there are utilities.  One is 
SetGetThrtl.exe.  According to the accompanying SetGetThrtl.doc "This means 
that you force the cpu to be idle a fixed percentage of its cycles per 
second."  The other command SetGetState.exe doesn't work on my T61.  The 
SetGetState.doc says its to control the frequency (I guess they mean speed) 
of the processor.  It only works on Intel CPUs and requires SpeedStep to be 
enabled in the BIOS.  I have both of those there but running SetGetState 
returns a CPU not found/supported message.

I created two batch files.

battery.cmd
	SetGetThrtl 1 50
	EXIT

and plug.cmd
	SetGetThrtl 1 100
	EXIT

So when I unplug the T61 I run battery.cmd which sets the CPU at idle 50% 
of the time.  With that I now get 3 hours of battery.  When I plug it back 
in I run plug.cmd which sets it back to full power.  Not as nice as having 
APM do it but it works and for most use I don't see a difference.  I made 
WPS objects for each and put them on eCenter.  Doesn't seem to be as hot 
when its throttled, which makes sense, but this T61 so far has run much 
cooler then my T42p which ran pretty hot, though not the burner my Medion 
P4 was or my kids Macbook Pros which get uncomfortably hot.

> When I click on that link I get a 404.  

Works here but I was signed in at the time.  Login as "Guest" with pw 
"netlabs".

> And please post when you find the 104b kernel.

Will do.  Last kernel I have was 14.104a.  That is the same one on the 
Betazone in the ACPI section.

Mark