Re: 2.6.9-rc4 Wrong processor speed

From: Wil Reichert
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 13:11:01 EST


Just the current speed its running at, M's can drop the CPU to 600MHz
to save power. Were the boots with the machine plugged or unplugged?
I've noticed they'll start at the slower speed unplugged. Something
like cpudyn makes boot speed irrelevant anyway.

Wil

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:04:02 +0200, mobil@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mobil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there seems to be some problem with detecting/displaying processor
> speed.
>
> 2.6.8.1: Detected 1399.199 MHz processor
> 2.6.9-rc3: Detected 599.541 MHz processor
> 2.6.9-rc4: Detected 599.542 MHz processor
>
> Machine is an Acer Travelmate 291lci laptop. (Pentium M - centrino - speedstep)
> This machine is running at 600Mhz, if it does not need more power.
> But it should display the real clockspeed at bootup, shouldn't it ?
>
> Regards, Sebastian
>
>
>
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