[ltp] ThinkPad R31 CPU frequency

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:10:19 -0400


Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, James Knott wrote:
> 
> Hello James,
> 
> 
>>I'm running SuSE 9.1 on an IBM ThinkPad R31.  One thing I've noticed, is 
>>that /proc/cpuinfo shows the cpu running at 731 MHz, and /proc/cpufreq 
>>shows 731 MHz as the minimum frequency and 1130 MHz as maximum.
> 
> 
> Same setup here:
> 
>   http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/thinkpad.html
> 
> The gist is:
> 
>   $ echo '0%100%100%performance' | sudo tee -a /proc/cpufreq
>   $ echo '0:0:0:powersave' | sudo tee -a /proc/cpufreq
> 
> Though it's probably easy to just install `cpudynd' and let that handle the
> changing.  SuSE may have this packaged, or have something else fancy
> they'd prefer you to use instead.
> 
> 	-Paul

I'll have to look into that.

tnx