Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-19 Thread Tobias Roth
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:48:59PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:24:20PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: What's wrong here is that the BIOS/ACPI firmware in your laptop runs your CPU at a reduced rate in

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-19 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : [*] Known in certain circles as a Warnering your laptop :-) Hmmm, melted plastic sure smells good in the morning :-) After replacing my fiva keyboard, I'm quite happy with it again. Warner

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-19 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : [*] Known in certain circles as a Warnering your laptop :-) : : Which can be solved by carefully watering your laptop. Beer will do : as well ;) : : It might be more useful to apply water (well, beer)

RE: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Vitali Djatsuk
Hi, Nothing is wrong. This is a thermal protection mode that use P 4 Molbile processors, this means that when there is nothing to do the processor works at 1,2Ghz according to your cpu, try to do some workout for youer system, then check your processor frequency DvG. -Original

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Tobias Roth
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:17:20PM +0300, Vitali Djatsuk wrote: Nothing is wrong. This is a thermal protection mode that use P 4 Molbile processors, this means that when there is nothing to do the processor works at 1,2Ghz according to your cpu, try to do some workout for youer system, then

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Tobias Roth
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:07:56AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: Were you on AC or battery when you booted? It seems that the T30 (and many other laptops from multiple vendors) does not change the CPU speed when APM/ACPI from FreeBSD tells it to. If I boot on battery, my system stays at 1.2

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:46:51 +0200 From: Tobias Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:07:56AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: Were you on AC or battery when you booted? It seems that the T30 (and many other laptops from multiple vendors) does not change the CPU speed when

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tobias Roth writes: Hi On my IBM T30 1.8GHz, dmesg (with both 4.8 and 5.1) shows me this line: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.8GHz (1196.13-MHz 686-class CPU) Various windows utilities also claim that the cpu identification string marks my cpu as 1.8 GHz

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Tobias Roth
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: What's wrong here is that the BIOS/ACPI firmware in your laptop runs your CPU at a reduced rate in order to make the battery last longer. it should NOT do this. I set the bios to disable speedstep and to 'max performance' while

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Tobias Roth
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:01:51AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: i was on AC all the time. i tried all combinations in the bios (speedstep on/off, max performance setting, ...), always the same. I watch my CPU speed with the gkx86info plug-in for gkrellm. At this time the plug-in in ports is

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:24:20 +0200 From: Tobias Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: What's wrong here is that the BIOS/ACPI firmware in your laptop runs your CPU at a reduced rate in order to make the

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tobias Roth writes: ... It can also be that the case that the cooling solution (ie: fans, fins etc) does not work well enough and the ACPI code has slowed down the CPU in order to not melt

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:24:20PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: What's wrong here is that the BIOS/ACPI firmware in your laptop runs your CPU at a reduced rate in order to make the battery last longer. it should NOT do this.

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poul-Henning [*] Known in certain circles as a Warnering your laptop :-) Which can be solved by carefully watering your laptop. Beer will do as well ;) It might be more useful to apply water (well, beer) to Warner instead of the laptop. The