Re: Laptop woes

["Joe Polk" <listuser javelinux com>]

No I'm booting under power. But this begs an interesting point. I'm using a 
slim dock and I don't know if a different one is offered. I wonder if that 
screws with the way it runs, meaning maybe it charges as the system run like 
this and simply behaves as if on battery. Weird, but a thought. The web 
browsing it chuggy as hell. Not as bad as RH9 but not good. I don't recall 
this the last time I ran RH8 so maybe I have some hw issues. I just unloaded 
W2K and it ran fine (shudder).  In short, there's not a physical reason I can 
see.

<<JAV>>

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From: "nate" <redhat aphroland org>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:49:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Laptop woes

> 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
> 
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