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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:03:25 +0200 (CEST)
From: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com>
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To: Dominik Brodowski <devel@brodo.de>
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Subject: Re: Laptops with SpeedStep technology.
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Dominik Brodowski wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > Recently I got myself a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a Intel P4 Mobile wich has 
> > SpeedStep technology. With power plugged in, this processor runs at 1.6 
> > GHz and with battery only, 1.2 GHz. However I've found that the 
> > /proc/cpuinfo doesn't show this and I was wondering if there were some 
> > patches lying around before I began to look at this on my own.
> 
> Depending on the chipset, cpufreq for 2.5. ( http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq/ )
> should show the correct value in /proc/cpuinfo _and_ offer you the chance to
> control the processor speed. For 2.4., the functionality is offered, but
> /proc/cpuinfo stays the same (yet).
> 

Thanks Dominik, this was exactly what I was looking for. I will try it 
out.

Regards,
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