Re: bug? acpi p-state + ondemand keeps dropping max freq

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Sat 2008-06-07 14:54:35, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:39:18 +0200
> Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> > > # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq
> > > 800000
> > > # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq
> > > 800000
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This renders my Dothan to utterly poor speeds. (standard T43)
> > > 
> > > performance cpufreq governor makes no difference - I still can't
> > > change the frequency upper/lower values.
> > 
> > Hmm, I have similar problem in Novell bugzilla, on very different hw:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396311

> are either of you running gnome-power-manager or kpowersaved ?
> sometimes these programs (and more likely, the patches added by a
> distro maintainer who doesn't fully realize how power works) tend to
> muck with kernel settings around CPU frequency that they have
> absolutely no business touching...

In novel bugzilla case ignore_ppc=1 helped, so it seems to be BIOS
problem, not userland's...
								Pavel
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