I had to turn speed-stepping off in my BIOS. I read that if not, the kernel will
lock the CPU speed at whatever it was at boot time. If that's a lower speed then
you will be stuck with that. Turn it off in the BIOS and see what happens.

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Quoting Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:12:26PM +0200, Lior Okman wrote:
> 
> > I do not have a /proc/cpufreq file. I do however have cpufreq compiled 
> > into the kernel, and the files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq 
> > are consistent with the cpu speed being 1.6Ghz  -
> 
> This leaves two options:
> - the CPU really is 1.66
> - Linux's cpu speed detection is faulty. I find it hard to believe
> (although anything is possible...) 
> 
> You might want to consider mailing the linux-kernel mailing list and
> inquiring. You should repeat all of the informatino we've been over,
> if you do that. This assumes that you've tried google and the mailing
> list archvie, and didn't find anything relevant. 
> 
> > >Also, unrelated question - I see you have an ALI 5451 sound card. Does
> > >sound work for you with the ALSA driver you're using? 
> > 
> > The sound works fine. I compile the stock 2.6.[01] kernel with the 
> > following settings:
> 
> If you feel like it, I'd appreciate it if you give the OSS trident
> sound driver a shot (CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT), especially if you end up
> compiling 2.6.2. I made some not-so-trivial changes that are included
> in 2.6.2. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Muli 
> -- 
> Muli Ben-Yehuda
> http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
> 
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> 
> 


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