On Sat 07. Jun - 14:54:35, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:39:18 +0200 > Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> 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... I'm not aware of any 'brand' of kpowersave or gnome-power-manager which could interfere here. Nor I'm aware of any backends in recent distros which tweak the 'max freq' knobs. So I don't think this can be related. Or please be a little bit more detailed about what you're referring to... Regards, Holger -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
