On Sat 2008-06-07 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 > 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... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
