Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

Tobias Roth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> What's "wrong" here is that the BIOS/ACPI firmware in your laptop
> runs your CPU at a reduced rate in order to make the battery last
> longer.

it should NOT do this. I set the bios to disable speedstep and to
'max performance' while on AC. also, i run apm and not acpi.

> It can also be that the case that the "cooling solution" (ie: fans,
> fins etc) does not work well enough and the ACPI code has slowed
> down the CPU in order to not melt anything [*].

that was also one of my suspicions. the fan is brand new, ibm replaced
it after i sent the unit in because of heat problems.

could it be that the design of this laptop is bad, when it comes to
heat conduction?

shouldn't i get the full 1.8GHz when running on AC, and be able to
do a buildworld without any sig11 on a hot summer day (~28 deg c room
temp). those sig11 are just another thing that may be connected to my
low cpu freq...

> [*] Known in certain circles as a "Warnering your laptop" :-)

haha, i saw those pics, looked scary!
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