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?
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