Re: misdetection of pentium2 - very strange

From: peter@hoeg.com
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 04:57:11 EST


Quoting Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>:

>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 peter@hoeg.com wrote:
>
> > dmesg:
> >
> > Linux version 2.4.18-rc2 (peter@asilog-linux2) (gcc version 2.95.4
> (Debian
> > prerelease)) #3 Thu Feb 21 19:21:37 SGT 2002
> > Initializing CPU#0
> > Detected 133.225 MHz processor.
> > Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> It seems your CPU is actually running at 133 MHz. If I am right, the
> bogomips value should be about 2x the clock frequency on this CPU and
> kernel. Is the bogomips calculation influenced by the detected CPU speed
> ?
> Can't check now.
>
> Can it be your system runs in a low-power mode, or that the linux
> kernel triggers a low-power mode ?

the compaq setup utility (bios setup program) reports a 333mhz with a bus speed
of 66, so if something makes it enter a low-power mode it should be linux. but
no apm/acpi support is compiled in/as modules.

/peter
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