Re: p4-clockmod doesn't seem to allow the highest possible speed

[Ducrot Bruno <ducrot@poupinou.org>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:32:12PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:41:10PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:21:45PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:18:24PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:08:00PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > > > Vanilla 2.6.1, but I had the same problem with 2.6.0 (didn't try
> > > > > p4-clockmod on any kernel before that).
> > > > 
> > > > You shouldn't need to use p4-clockmod at all... speedstep-ich is a better
> > > > choice for your system...
> > > 
> > > This doesn't seem to work, it says 'No such device'. I have a VIA 82C686
> > > south bridge, not an Intel one, so I guess that's the reason.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, you're right. VIA doesn't publish their spec sheets as Intel
> > does, so there's no speedstep-via driver (yet). Maybe acpi.ko works?
> 
> It does, but when my CPU is throttled, it makes an uncomfortable sound
> at high frequency, so I try to avoid that.
> 

Do you mean the processor is at high speed (performance), and throttling
is enabled?

So it should not be even surprising.

The P4 is able to throttle itself, so I guess the throttling
things done externally by the south bridge would have not even
been tested by the platform designer...

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