[ltp] Nearing nirvana with a T40P

[Fabrice Bellet]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:16:29AM -0400, mukesh agrawal wrote:
> > Speedstep.  No matter what BIOS settings I play with, if the system
> > boots on battery, then CPU frequency is limited to 600Mhz, even if AC is
> > restored.  I'm running the cpufreq module, however it still considers
> > 600MHz to be the upper limit.  It used to be that the 600MHz limit went
> > in to effect, even if I booted on AC and then switched to battery,
> > however a recent change to kernel 2.4.21-rc8-ac1 seems to have made it
> > that it sticks with whatever it had at boot time.
> 
> I use 2.4.21-ac2 and 'echo "1300000 1300000 performance" > /proc/cpufreq".
> Seems to work fine.

Enhanced speedstep support for the pentium-M has been added in 2.4.21-ac1, 
see http://lwn.net/Articles/36303/ (CPUfreq updates).

Best wishes,
-- 
fabrice