Eee control for Celerons - Testing in 4.3

[01micko]

Many thanks to the work of tempestuous we now have a working GUI to reset the FSB in older Celeron Eee-pcs so that you can unlock the full clockspeed of your Celeron M 900 processor. So far dawnsboy has tested on a 701 with positive results. It is based on work in this thread for the Atom processor.

You will need all of the appropriate dotpets (modules) compiled by tempestuous to get the functionality. See http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47267. Be sure to get the correct ones for your Eee-pc and load them in order and reboot.

After you have all the dotpets (modules) installed run

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#lsmod

to confirm that the "eee" module is loaded.

To check what state your Eee-pc is in run this

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cat /proc/eee/fsb

When the Eee is in default mode, the result will be

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70 24 1

where the first field of digits (70) is the FSB. After you install the following dotpet you can choose your mode. The default is powersave, You can change that to performance. To test the change run

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cat /proc/eee/fsb

If you changed to performance that command should return

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100 24 1

FSB speed "70" means CPU speed of 630MHz, and
FSB speed "100" means CPU speed of 900MHz.

Also included are fan control scripts by Dougal, these are dependant on the modules from the thread mentioned at the top of the post.

Here is the dotpet, please offer any feedback.

Notes: For puppy 4.3 k2.6.30.5 (will work with 2.6.25.16 For Celerons but not Atoms with the 2.6.25.16 modules installed). There is still a problem with 701SD (newer Celeron with 400MHz FSB, don't use) No warranty, use at own risk.

UPDATE11Oct2009
Changelog
V-0.6
-updated post install script to detect a Eee-pc701SD to install the Atom GUI

[01micko]

Updated to V-0.6

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