On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:08:47 -0500, Chris Pickett wrote: > >How do you check the speed? Do you mean the settings in the BIOS? > >Because I also have a Thinkpad... > > I actually took Linux off my laptop a couple of years ago because of > this problem (and joined this list in preparation for putting it back on > to do audio stuff, yada yada). > > It's to do with some SpeedStep problem (google a little bit, you'll get > lots of hits). I have a similar problem on my dell 8100, its kinda random what speed it picks. I dont have /proc/cpufreq, but if you run valgrind (eg. "valgrind echo") it will try to work out hte spu speed. - Steve