Re: "processor" acpi module permanently throttles processor

[Owen Heisler <owen@owenh-laptop.hopto.org>]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:29 +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote:
> > > An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor
> > > becomes very slow.  Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine.
> 
> Some thing could be done. Try out with
> "sysctl -a". Find apropriate option and
> read manual on it.
> If fails, you could always recompile the
> kernel. To remove tons of superfluous op-
> tions (aka drivers). Lapper will breath
> again, hopefuly.

Thanks; I'll look into it.  Nothing shows up with ACPI disabled, but
perhaps when ACPI is on "sysctl -a | grep cpu" or similar will turn up
something.