I had never read anything about the VIA C7-M before you brought it to my attention. Now, thanks to you, I have read the spec sheets and I am very intrigued.
Your post fails to mention if you have been able to find a utility, under Linux, that will allow you to adjust the processor speed. From what I read in the spec sheets, it should be possible for you "scale" the cpu speed from 600M to 1.2G....and at least several speeds in between. Have you been able to do this? On Dec 24, 5:54 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Tonight, I had some spare time, and decided to run a memtest on the > Cloudbook, to see if a bad module was the source of the problems with > the machine. So I plug in the external drive, fire up a Linux CD, and > select memtest, specifically Memtest86 v2.01. > > It lists the CPU as a 600MHz. > > Okay. THAT was unexpected. > > It's a VIA C7-M, and it lists as a 1.2G. I found a posting by a guy > who clearly knows his stuff about Linux and found a way to use > e_powersaver (he says he uses his Cloudbook to crack WEP's) to get it > running at full speed. He also claims far more battery life and a > negligible increase in temperatures, which I guess figures, since the > CPU is being used the way it was designed to. > > But that's the answer. I thought, from the way programs were running > and such, that the machine was not running at 1.2G. Now, I know it's > not. Even if I thought I was misreading the screen for Memtest86 (I > couldn't find 1.2G mentioned anywhere on the display), here's a bunch > of people talking about how great their Cloudbooks are now that > they've unlocked them. Like they say, this explains a lot. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
