Re: [2.6.0-test10] cpufreq: 2G P4M won't go above 1.2G - cpuinfo_max_freq too low

From: Simon
Date: Thu Nov 27 2003 - 10:02:19 EST


On Thursday 27 November 2003 1:42 pm, Marco Roeland wrote:

> > Seems that this is a fault of a better implementation of something... But
> > "better" to me shouldn't take away choice of cpu speed from the user? ;)
>
> One last straw you might try, is building all the different cpufreq
> drivers as modules, and trying if modprobeing one of them might work.
> They seem to all behave slightly differently with respect to what they
> assume to be true from the ACPI reported values, and what they try on
> their own.

You're a star, thankyou. It was loading p4-clockmod by default. I had all the
pentium-related modules compiled in, and it was behaving like that... dmesg
said it was loading p4-clockmod.

I modprobe'd speedstep-ich instead, and foom! Straight up to 2ghz.

Thanks,
Simon


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/