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Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 5000e Speedstep Oops
To: dennis.noordsij@wiral.com (Dennis Noordsij)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:25:06 +0000 (GMT)
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> Btw, the originally installed W2K not only detects the speed change, but also 
> allows you to override the thing and run 700MHz on battery, or 550MHz on 
> mains. I seem to remember from the older posts on this list though that it is 
> difficult to detect this change (would require an ineffecient polling 
> behaviour). Is this possible under Linux?

Intel have so far refused to provide the needed information. We have the
neccessary information for competing processors but not Intel

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