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Message-ID: <20080617084452.GA27101@elf.ucw.cz> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:44:52 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, len.brown@...el.com, cpufreq@...ts.linux.org.uk, davej@...emonkey.org.uk Subject: Re: bug? acpi p-state + ondemand keeps dropping max freq Hi! > > > are either of you running gnome-power-manager or kpowersaved ? > > > sometimes these programs (and more likely, the patches added by a > > > distro maintainer who doesn't fully realize how power works) tend to > > > muck with kernel settings around CPU frequency that they have > > > absolutely no business touching... > > > > In novel bugzilla case ignore_ppc=1 helped, so it seems to be BIOS > > problem, not userland's... > > well as long as the user doesn't use this for production use... the > BIOS often reduces frequencies available to deal with thermal > situations, so it's not a good idea to ignore that. Not a good idea, but what's the alternative? It seems like BIOS always leaves him at 800MHz unless he ignores it. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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