On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:57, Susemail wrote: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 07:19, Anders Johansson wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:28 -1000, Susemail wrote: > > > With respect to the AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ are > > > they taking two cpu's (cores) running at 1 Ghz - summing their clock > > > speeds and calling it a 2.4 Ghz processor? > > > > No, your processors are running in "dynamic" mode, which means they > > adapt their frequency to how you use the system. If you run something > > CPU intensive, they will (or should) go to max speed. > > > > If you want them running at max speed always, set this in YaST's > > powersave module (change from Dynamic to Performance I think it's > > called) > > It is called Performance. I had set it to that some months ago when I > bought the machine. I'm going to load the linux_frequency_driver-1.60.01 > now from AMD to see if that helps. > > Jerome > > > On the command line you can use "powersave -f", to make a temporary > > change to max CPU power This worked: Clock: 2411 MHz. My current kernel (linux-2.6.13-15.12) comes with cpu-freq documentation so I assume the driver is already loaded. Now on to the Nvidia driver. Thanks, Jerome
