On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:57, Susemail wrote:
> On Saturday 14 October 2006 07:19, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:28 -1000, Susemail wrote:
> > > With respect to the AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ are
> > > they taking two cpu's (cores) running at 1 Ghz - summing their clock
> > > speeds and calling it a 2.4 Ghz processor?
> >
> > No, your processors are running in "dynamic" mode, which means they
> > adapt their frequency to how you use the system. If you run something
> > CPU intensive, they will (or should) go to max speed.
> >
> > If you want them running at max speed always, set this in YaST's
> > powersave module (change from Dynamic to Performance I think it's
> > called)
>
> It is called Performance. I had set it to that some months ago when I
> bought the machine. I'm going to load the linux_frequency_driver-1.60.01
> now from AMD to see if that helps.
>
> Jerome
>
> > On the command line you can use "powersave -f", to make a temporary
> > change to max CPU power
This worked: Clock: 2411 MHz. My current kernel (linux-2.6.13-15.12) comes
with cpu-freq documentation so I assume the driver is already loaded. Now on
to the Nvidia driver.
Thanks,
Jerome
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