[ltp] Thinkpad R40 2722: various CPUFREQ troubles

[Alexander Gran]

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> * I Can't clock the machine at 1500 MHz when disconnected from external
> power. I know IBM wants to conserve battery power here. BUT I DON'T
> CARE. A useless (slow) system is worse than one running two hours less.
> Does this depend on BIOS settings? I think I tried everything possible,
> but never got past 600 MHz.

Which kernel do you use?
With a recent one, it should be no problem to get it to 1500Mzh. Mine does.

> * The system time runs slow. Order of magnitude is about 5 minutes slow
> per hour of operation. This doesn't seem to occur when it is turned off.
> I have to ntpdate several times a day. :-(  CPU frequency doesn't seem
> to have any influence. Time is lost at about the same speed no matter if
> 1500 or 150 MHz. Google says ACPI will fix this (and it does), but with
> ACPI the battery status doesn't work any more.

huh. strange.

> * Strange message in the syslog (appears once, some minutes after
>
> booting):
> | Losing too many ticks!
> | TSC cannot be used as a timesource. (Are you running with SpeedStep?)
> | Falling back to a sane timesource.

This seems to be related to your 2. problem.

> The answer to that question is probably "yes". The fallback timesource
> obviously isn't more sane either, because it's still wrong :-(

Have you configured something strange in the kernel regarding rtc?

> Pentium M CPU, Linux 2.6-test9 kernel with the CPUFREQ stuff, APM mode,
> acpi=3Doff (you know, the battery).

Ahh. perhaps post the configuration somewhere.

> BIOS settings: CPU frequency is set to "fixed max". (But still the CPU
> runs at 600 instead of 1500.)

This may be due to cpufreq which controls the spped.

> Enabling or disabling SpeedStep in the BIOS doesn't make any difference
> whatsoever. CPUFREQ happily changes frequency in both modes, the system
> time is slow in both.

Yes. you need to change the speed via cpufreq. consider perhaps cpufreqd

Alex

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