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tranquility

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2004-08-06

Posts: 136

Cpufreq question

Hmmm I've been considering enabling cpufreq on my arch box, although it isn't a laptop. I'm not sure if it is possible to scale a "normal" cpu. Does anyone know if I can do this? By the way my /proc/cpuinfo says:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 10
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 2191.310
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 4325.37

i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: Cpufreq question

You need powernow/speedstep/whatever support, which your cpu doesn't have. You could try ACPI cpu throttling.

tranquility

Member

From: Portugal

Registered: 2004-08-06

Posts: 136

Re: Cpufreq question

Thanks