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Re: [suse-amd64] what frequency should my CPU run at?
  • From: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:30:23 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <200511201330.12187.bernd.paysan@xxxxxx>
On Sunday 20 November 2005 10:23, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
> Thanks for getting back to me. However, when I look at the
> cpuinfo_cur_freq all it does is hop between 1GHz and 2.2GHz - this is
> reminiscent of the earlier thread on powersaved??

Yes

> Is this the expected behaviour?

Once you know the bug, you'd expect it - but it's not supposed to be
that way ;-).

Edit /etc/sysconfig/powersave/cpufreq and change the entry

CPUFREQ_CONTROL="userspace"

to default - that's kernel:

CPUFREQ_CONTROL=""

The initial configuration uses the userspace stuff, which is broken.

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Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
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