On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've > noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume > cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS > confirms this; the rating is either 158 or 238; if I'm inferring things > correctly, that means a drop from 120mhz to 80mhz. Another suspend/resume > cycle usually fixes things. I've noted the problem ever since trying to > use TuxTime a couple of months back. For the curious: > > Linux 2.2.13/i586 > APM BIOS 1.2 (kernel driver 1.9) > > Nothing else really seems topical. AFAICT, the system doesn't care about > the speed change. > I used to have this problem after a resume. Surprisingly it was fixed by changing a BIOS option or two. On my laptop I had to turn off 'CPU Idle' calls in the *BIOS* and also (probably due to a dodgy Pheonix BIOS) had to turn off 'PnP OS'. This solved my problems and so far (touch wood) I have had no further slow downs......YAY!
Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" "Hubenko" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\------\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||----||| ~~~ ~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Woody Linux Earthquake
