How to turn on SpeedStep on the Dell Precision WorkStation 390...

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:48:31PM -0800, Gary L. Greene, Jr. wrote:
> I'm working on a script to automate changing the SpeedStep setting for
> a few machines here at work and need to get the proper token settings
> for this for tokenCtl. Previously I got some info from another
> engineer at Dell regarding this, but the tokens they send me via email
> was either incorrect or I'm plain not using this tool right. Are there
> any documents on how to properly set this on these machines? Thanks.

First, I need to see the output of the commands you are running now.
Second I need output from dumpCmos. We should be able to get you working
instructions for how to do this (if it is possible) using the existing
tools.

And, next:

I am working on a new tool package, pysmbios, which has an improved
tokenCtl. The new tokenCtl will dump out text descriptions of each
token, rather than the numeric-only of the old tokenCtl.

If you want to try it out, I will be sending the instructions out to the
mailing list shortly. It requires libsmbios-2, both need to be compiled
from source in the git repo. (RPMS will be available shortly.)
--
Michael