Re: Compal EFL30 ACPI

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:33:07AM +0200, Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 09:29 -0700, foo_bar_baz_boo-acpi-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > --- Dow_Hurst <dhurst-mn4gwa5WIIQysxA8WJXlww@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > > I'd like to work out.  I did see that the CPU under XP was running at
> > > ~750MHz instead of 1.86GHz.  I am pretty sure this doesn't happen
> > > under SUSE 9.3.
> > 
> > Right. That's probably a sign that you do not have the 2.6.xx cpufreq
> > CPU speed adjustment drivers present in that SuSE kernel of yours. If
> > you enable AMD PowerNow / Intel SpeedStep cpufreq drivers, this problem
> > will go away. Then, if you want to control the speed, download
> > cpufreqd, which will let you set up everything just exactly how you
> > want it using cpufreqd.conf.
> 
> I was under the impression that the "acpi" cpufreq driver was
> preferable.

You were wrong.

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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