Re: [Acpi4asus-user] [PATCH 1/1] cpufreq: eeepc 900 frequency scaling driver

Tom Hughes
2008-11-24T17:08:18Z

Corentin Chary wrote:

> Just modprobe p4-clockmod
> - use cpufreq to go to the lower frequency
> - run something cpu intensive
> - go to the higher frequency (900mghz)
> - you'll see the difference
>
> at least, it works with my eeepc 700, maybe 900 is different for that,
> but it seems unlikely to me.

Have a look at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/eeepc/ for an
explanation of what p4-clockmod does and why it isn't really changing
the speed of the processor (but does cause you to get less work done).

tom

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