> On Sat 2008-06-07 14:54:35, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:39:18 +0200
> > Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > > > # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq
> > > > 800000
> > > > # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq
> > > > 800000
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This renders my Dothan to utterly poor speeds. (standard T43)
> > > >
> > > > performance cpufreq governor makes no difference - I still can't
> > > > change the frequency upper/lower values.
> > >
> > > Hmm, I have similar problem in Novell bugzilla, on very different
> > > hw:
> > >
> > >
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396311
>
> > 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...
