Re: Pentium M info wanted-one more question

[akonstam trinity edu]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:27:38PM -0800, Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 22:17 -0600, akonstam trinity edu wrote:
> > I bought a Dell laptop that was supposed to have a 1.86GHz processor.
> > But cat /proc/cpuinfo displays:
> > 
> > processor       : 0
> > vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family      : 6
> > model           : 13
> > model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
> > stepping        : 8
> > cpu MHz         : 798.060
> > cache size      : 2048 KB
> > 
> > 
> > Have I been lead astray?
> 
> No. The model name is correct. It's very likely just the CPU/kernel
> scaling the speed on an "as-needed" basis to save power. ("Intel
> Enhanced SpeedStep Technology," I believe it's called.)
Ok, I checked this out and indeed this is power saving feature. But
one poster pointed out the applet in:
emifreq-applet-0.18.tar.gz

I can't get it to work. The INSTALL instructions said the applet would
be installed in /usr/local/bin which it isn't, that there would be a
man page produced, which there is not, so I am confused how to use
this applet. Any advice? 
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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