BIOS Stuff

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

If its a intel its called 'SpeedStep' amd has a similar thing, but I can't think of what its called.  I had alot of issues with speedstep and 2.4 on my vaio, kept running at 700mhz instead of 850mhz.  There have been fixes for speestep in 2.5/2.6, and it should work much better.  I haven't had a chance to try it though, I've been way busy.

-miah

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:36:00PM -0500, Duane Morin wrote:
> Following up to myself I do see this in 
> /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance:
> 
> state count:             6
> active state:            P0
> states:
>    *P0:                  3067 MHz, 20000 mW, 250 uS
>     P1:                  3067 MHz, 20000 mW, 250 uS
>     P2:                  3067 MHz, 20000 mW, 250 uS
>     P3:                  3067 MHz, 20000 mW, 250 uS
>     P4:                  3067 MHz, 20000 mW, 250 uS
>     P5:                  1600 MHz, 15000 mW, 250 uS
> 
> So if I'm in state P0 at 3067MHz maybe it's the right thing after all?
> 
> Duane
> 
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Duane Morin wrote:
> 
> > Quick question as I explore the depths of my Inspiron laptop.
> > I looked at the BIOS and saw this:
> > 
> > Intel Pentium4:  3.06GHz/1.60GHz
> > ...
> > Current CPU Speed:  1.60GHz
> > 
> > This bothers me because I bought a 3GHz machine.  Since the BIOS did not 
> > give me any option to change current cpu speed, can somebody fill me in on 
> > why my machine has two speeds and how I can be on something other than the 
> > lowest one?
> > 
> > Duane
> > 
> > 
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