On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:27:38PM -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 22:17 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I bought a Dell laptop that was supposed to have a 1.86GHz processor. > > But cat /proc/cpuinfo displays: > > > > processor : 0 > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > cpu family : 6 > > model : 13 > > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz > > stepping : 8 > > cpu MHz : 798.060 > > cache size : 2048 KB > > > > > > Have I been lead astray? > > No. The model name is correct. It's very likely just the CPU/kernel > scaling the speed on an "as-needed" basis to save power. ("Intel > Enhanced SpeedStep Technology," I believe it's called.) Ok, I checked this out and indeed this is power saving feature. But one poster pointed out the applet in: emifreq-applet-0.18.tar.gz I can't get it to work. The INSTALL instructions said the applet would be installed in /usr/local/bin which it isn't, that there would be a man page produced, which there is not, so I am confused how to use this applet. Any advice? ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484