Re: Laptop woes

["nate" <redhat aphroland org>]

Joe Polk said:
> Okay, I moved back to RH8. But I still see in /proc/cpuinfo that my PIII
> 500Mhz shows at 259.092Mhz. Why?
>
> On the other hand I'm surfing faster than with RH9, albeit still chuggy.

are you booting up while on battery(no AC)? many newer intel-based
laptops automatically slow the clock when AC is disconnected. my
700mhz laptop drops to about 100mhz or something when AC is not
available(rarely notice it but VMware loudly complains when I run
it on battery :) ).

I don't think /proc/cpuinfo is dynamically updated so if you plug
the AC in after booting up from battery I don't know if the system
will speed back up to normal(probably will), and if cpuinfo is
updated to reflect the change(I expect it won't be).

using a ACPI capable kernel may improve results, last I remember
redhat removed the ACPI stuff due to compatiability issues on
many systems(ACPI code is still not that great, though it works
fine on my laptop).

nate