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 (we

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 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

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 la

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 NO

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 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 m

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 po

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' w

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

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 C

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

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:12:39 +0200 > From: Tobias Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 utiliti

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 Vitali Djatsuk
- From: Tobias Roth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30) 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

dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Tobias Roth
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 unit, while the maximum frequency always gets detect