On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Trevor Smith wrote: > 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? speedstep is intel's cpuscaling similar to AMD's Powernow. I have a Pentium-M. You might want to check '/usr/sbin/speedstep -h'. Perhaps use the following in /etc/cpuspeed.conf OPTS="-i 1" Satish
