On October 30, 2004 1:35 pm, Satish Balay wrote: > cat /proc/cpuinfo - and see if the CPU MHz is not the max it should be. Whoa. Good to know. It was way slow, even WITH my power cord plugged in. > > 4. how can I turn this damn Powernow thing off? > > You can try: 'killall -SIGUSR1 cpuspeed' and see if to goes to max > speed (/proc/cpuinfo) - and you get all your performance back. Yep, this did make things report as being faster: model name : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2800+ stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 2120.092 (previously it was 5hundredsomething). I don't notice any difference WITH the power cord in, but when I take it out, the computer remains usable. Strangely, screen drawing is still noticably different with the power cord unplugged, but it is well within tolerable limits now. > I like using sppedstep on FC1.(go to max-freq only if you need the > extra cycles). I don't have any x-window refresh issues. OK, where can I find this speedstep? -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
