How are you powering your BBB? I've heard that if you power it via USB instead of the 5V DC connector, that the CPU speed will be reduced due to the lower power.
On 21 March 2014 10:38, Dennis Cote <denn...@harding.ca> wrote: > On Friday, March 21, 2014 8:24:50 AM UTC-6, cwrse...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Okay, I'm officially confused. I've been trying to increase the speed >> of my BBB from the default 550MHz to 1GHz, and failing; >> > > How are you measuring the CPU frequency? > > I have noticed that cpufreq-info gives different answers depending upon > the arguments. With no arguments mine always returns 300 MHz when running > with the 300 1000 ondemand governor. If I use the "cpufreq-info -f" command > I get the same results, always 300 MHz, both at idle and under load. If I > use the "sudo cpufreq-info -w" command, I get 300 MHz at idle and 1000 MHz > under load. The -w option reads the frequency from the hardware and > requires root privledges. > > HTH > Dennis Cote > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
