On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 06:54:05PM -0700, Arthur Mesh wrote:
> Hello,
> Found an interesting behavior on a Thinkpad T61 running a week old
> 4.3-current i386 GENERIC. Whenever it boots plugged in to AC, dmesg
> recognizes SpeedStep and hw.setperf becomes available through sysctl(8).
> On the other hand, whenever it boots while it's on battery, dmesg
> doesn't recognize SpeedStep. acpidump is attached. There is even a
> subtle difference in dmesgs
change the bios settings that force the cpu to be throttled whenever on
battery.
works for me on my x61s.
Cheers,
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