On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:46:21AM +0200, Lior Okman wrote: > I recently bought a new laptop, and after I installed Linux on it, I > noticed a strange inconsistency with the cpu. > The CPU is supposed to be a Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, but Linux identifies it > as a Pentium 4 2.66 GHz that operates at 1.6GHz:
> model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2.66GHz This string comes directly from the CPU, most likely. Linux just prints it. > stepping : 9 > cpu MHz : 1594.431 <------------ This is what Linux calculated the CPU's frequency as. > Is this normal? Some kind of frequency scaling thing in order to save > power? That is one of the possible solutions (and the most likely one). Although why the laptop wouldn't work in "full capaity" when connected to the electricity is a mystery. Do you have cpufrequency options in the bios? a cpufrequency script that modifies the CPU's power consumption? please post (or send me in private) the full dmesg output. > The results I got above were made while the laptop was connected > to the electricity. This is also consistent across different kernel > versions. I tries 2.4.23 and 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 and got exactly the same > results each time. The other possible solutions are that the model name is wrong (meaning it claims 2.66, but the CPU actually does 1.66), and that there's a bug in Linux. Hope this helps, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ "the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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