Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:54:35 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: bug? acpi p-state + ondemand keeps dropping max freq |
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:39:18 +0200 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq > > 800000 > > # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq > > 800000 > > > > > > This renders my Dothan to utterly poor speeds. (standard T43) > > > > performance cpufreq governor makes no difference - I still can't > > change the frequency upper/lower values. > > Hmm, I have similar problem in Novell bugzilla, on very different hw: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396311 > > Pavel >
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...
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