Gabe, I did some research too, and also think that TurboBoost works just fine on this machine.
This paper explains why applications like powertop aren't telling the whole story. It's also why looking at /proc/cpuinfo is misleading: http://download.intel.com/design/processor/applnots/320354.pdf I don't think a kernel patch is the right answer. Making the kernel poll every second to show the user that TurboBoost is working seems both wasteful and silly, IMO. Patching powertop would be simple though, and much more appropriate. One final piece of confirmation that TurboBoost is enabled is to look at /proc/cpuinfo: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags | grep ida | uniq The flag 'ida' tells you that TurboBoost is working. The formal name for the technology is "Intel Dynamic Acceleration", which is what the flag stands for. http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/processor-power/dynamic- acceleration.php Finally, I don't know anything about fglrx. Xorg on my machine is using the radeon module. I can post my Xorg.log here if you like... -- No fans, thermalzone on HP Envy 15 and HP DV6T Quad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463940 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
