From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ducrot Bruno Subject: Re: p4-clockmod doesn't seem to allow the highest possible speed Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:53:08 +0100 Sender: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20040110185308.GZ14031@poupinou.org> References: <20040109181851.GA1393@grep.be> <20040110101534.GA10003@dominikbrodowski.de> <20040110110800.GA8294@grep.be> <20040110131824.GA5010@dominikbrodowski.de> <20040110152145.GA10160@grep.be> <20040110154110.GA8735@dominikbrodowski.de> <20040110163212.GD10531@grep.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040110163212.GD10531@grep.be> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Wouter Verhelst Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk 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... -- Ducrot Bruno -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.