Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757600AbYFIQlh (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 12:41:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753340AbYFIQl1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 12:41:27 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:23829 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751922AbYFIQl0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 12:41:26 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,613,1204531200"; d="scan'208";a="392567049" Message-ID: <484D5CCB.10302@intel.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:39:39 -0700 From: "Kok, Auke" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080417) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Pavel Machek , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com, cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, davej@codemonkey.org.uk Subject: Re: bug? acpi p-state + ondemand keeps dropping max freq References: <20080606140846.GA9580@ucw.cz> <20080607213918.GC1746@elf.ucw.cz> <20080607145435.4afc9812@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080607145435.4afc9812@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jun 2008 16:41:25.0413 (UTC) FILETIME=[A8412D50:01C8CA4F] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1253 Lines: 39 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:39:18 +0200 > Pavel Machek wrote: > >>> # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq >>> 800000 >>> # echo 1866000 > scaling_max_freq ; cat scaling_max_freq >>> 800000 >>> >>> >>> This renders my Dothan to utterly poor speeds. (standard T43) >>> >>> performance cpufreq governor makes no difference - I still can't >>> change the frequency upper/lower values. >> Hmm, I have similar problem in Novell bugzilla, on very different hw: >> >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396311 >> >> Pavel >> > > > are either of you running gnome-power-manager or kpowersaved ? > sometimes these programs (and more likely, the patches added by a > distro maintainer who doesn't fully realize how power works) tend to > muck with kernel settings around CPU frequency that they have > absolutely no business touching... I neither run gnome nor kde. there's nothing running on this box that is managing power settings. Auke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/