Re: clock speed trouble
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried noacpi as a kernel option and
adding in "toshiba" to /etc/modules, and my machine starts off at full
speed. So it doesn't appear to be any of those. I've installed
cpufreqd but it complains that I don't have a cpufreq interface in the
kernel - should I recompile, bearing in mind this is an old Portegee
7020CT with a Pentium II 366?
cheers
Dave
On 13/05/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have an old Toshiba laptop (c 1999) which uses apm rather than the
> > modern acpi. Whenever I boot up on battery power, the cpu speed is
> > incorrectly detected as 48.175 MHz. This makes the system clock run
> > way too fast, which means my time gets wrong, and also makes the
> > computer harder to use in a bunch of ways (e.g. ultra fast keyboard
> > repeat).
> >
> > Has anyone got a way to solve this problem?
>
> Are you booting the kernel with acpi=off or noacpi (assuming you
> have not rolled your own and completely disabled it)? Do you have
> the toshiba.ko module load on boot (place the word toshiba on its
> own line /etc/modules for this to happen automatically)? Is your
> CPU a Speedstep? If so, make sure that your BIOS is set to boot
> with it at max speed, otherwise it may boot at one speed and then
> get changed later, thereby messing up the kernel (unless you load
> the speedstep-related modules and install a suitable userland
> application, like cpufreqd, to manage it).
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sanchez
> http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
>
>
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