Hi. I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I couldn't find any useful information, so here I write. Hope it's not a problem. cpufreq-info shows this in my laptop: hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.53 GHz available frequency steps: *2.53 GHz, 2.53 GHz*, 1.60 GHz, 800 MHz As you can see, the maximum frequency is shown twice. I searched for that, but only found non-related bug reports in which people notice the duplicated frequency. So it is a relatively common issue. But I couldn't find a bug report for this, specifically. I also have a KDE widget that shows the processor frequency. It shows it in green when at the lowest possible, in red when at the max frequency, and in yellow when at an intermediate state. If I switch to conservative governor and put the processor under load, I see the frequency raising from 800 MHz (green) to 1.60 GHz (yellow), then 2.53 GHz (yellow again) then 2.53 HGz (now red) so it seems to be effectively switching between two different states with the same frequency. Although not serious, I think frequent switching between the same frequencies may degrade performance. I recently upgraded my processor from a T5800 to a T9400, and made no software change. cpufreq-info didn't show twice the greatest frequency with the former processor, this issue started as soon as I replaced it. Attached: complete output of cpufreq-info, complete hardware info. I'm running kubuntu 12.04, kernel 3.2.0-26-generic-pae Thanks for your time (reading, and coding things like cpufreq). I really appretiate your work. And forgive my english, it's not my native language. Regards, Ariel
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