Re: Laptops & CPU frequency

[Jerry Cooperstein]

There were some patches to solve this back in the 2.5 series.

Try booting with the kernel command line option
          clock=pit

coop@xxxxxxxxx

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 04:33, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le dim 11/01/2004 à 11:27, Xavier Bestel a écrit :
> 
> > > The MHz value in /proc/cpuinfo should be updated as the CPU speed
> > > changes - that is, it is not calculated just at boot, but it is updated
> > > as the speed actually changes.
> > 
> > 2.6.0 doesn't do that on my laptop. Moreover, if I ever boot on battery,
> > when switching to AC power, lots of things fail (mouse is jerky, pcmcia
> > doesn't work ...)
> 
> I forgot one particularly annoying too: time is going twice too fast.
> 
> 	Xav
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 Jerry Cooperstein, <coop@xxxxxxxxx>
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