I had a Pentium 120Mhz laptop that would halve its frequency when on battery power. On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 13:10, Bill Nottingham wrote: > seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 14:00, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Joe Polk (listuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > 2. Why would a PII 500 be showing up as a 258Mhz processor in /proc/cpuinfo? > > > > > > A laptop you booted when on battery power? > > > > I didn't think that the pIIs speedstepped > > His /proc/cpuinfo said PIII. Also, there are some that did > not-exactly-speedstep CPU frequency changing. > > Bill > >