[Tfug] Got an odd one: laptop AMD CPU stuck at 800mhz, won't jump to 1, 600

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jan 21 17:12:19 MST 2012


On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm.  Well I have an article on how to take direct control over the
> speed controls, at:
>
> http://www.pantz.org/software/cpufreq/usingcpufreqonlinux.html
>
> I'll try that next.

I have seen a problem where the ACPI data is reporting an incorrect
max frequency and Linux is obeying that.  In my case, disabling
speedstep is a viable workaround.

-- 
Tom




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