Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:44:52 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: bug? acpi p-state + ondemand keeps dropping max freq |
| |
Hi!
> > > are either of you running gnome-power-manager or kpowersaved ? > > > sometimes these programs (and more likely, the patches added by a > > > distro maintainer who doesn't fully realize how power works) tend to > > > muck with kernel settings around CPU frequency that they have > > > absolutely no business touching... > > > > In novel bugzilla case ignore_ppc=1 helped, so it seems to be BIOS > > problem, not userland's... > > well as long as the user doesn't use this for production use... the > BIOS often reduces frequencies available to deal with thermal > situations, so it's not a good idea to ignore that.
Not a good idea, but what's the alternative? It seems like BIOS always leaves him at 800MHz unless he ignores it. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
| |