Subject: Re: Laptops & CPU frequency
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
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On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 13:28, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le lun 12/01/2004 ? 20:52, john stultz a ?crit :
> 
> > More info please. What type of hardware is this?  Could you send me your
> > dmesg for booting both with and without AC power? 
> 
> It's an Armada 1700, with a pII 300MHz (150MHz on battery). It doesn't
> support cpufreq (I tried modprobing all drivers, none work), I must boot
> with acpi=off if I want suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk to work (apm
> works great on this machine). As said elsewhere in this thread, booting
> with clock=pit solves my problem.
> Yet I can investigate for you (send dmesg, test things) if you're still
> interested.

Please do. I have code in the kernel that tries to detect when the
problem you see occurs, so we will drop back to the PIT automatically.
Somehow it seems we're not triggering that code in your case. 

thanks
-john


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