Well, as I am new to powernowd. I was believing this would indicate current speed but no. This is a program, running in the background, that should in your case, when it detects CPU to be used at 80%, make the CPU run at 700MHz (full speed), and when not much use (lower than 20% utilization), decrease the speed by 100MHz step, that would be 600MHz, but since there is only a 550MHz, guess that would make it run at 550Mhz. The SpeedStep technology try to use in your case full speed 700MHz when plugged on AC, and 550MHz when running on battery.
Well, I don't know if: cat /proc/cpuinfo would give current cpu speed, or the speed when the computer started. If the result of $cat /proc/cpuinfo show cpu MHz : 150 That would confirm your computer is running 150 Mhz, but we know it can sustain 700MHz. Edgy (Ubuntu and Kubuntu 6.10) should go out officialy by tomorrow (oct. 26). You may want to give it a try. Or you could try to explore BIOS advance settings to see if there is an option to change CPU MHz there, and try to set it at least at 550MHz if you find one. (But probably more secure to try 6.10). Could be Bug #36014 hitting you. -- Pentium 3 at 150MHz!? losing some ticks (and ide errors) https://launchpad.net/bugs/66654 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
