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I got a new laptop for christmas, and the first order of business on it is to install Gentoo. It's a Dell Latitude Csx 500 with a 500MHz PIII. When booting from a LiveCD, it shows up as a 134 MHz PIII. I'm using the standard LiveCD, not the experimental one. I checked and there is no acpi support, so cpufreqd is out. If anyone has any ideas, I owuld love to hear them.
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some notebooks allow you to slow down the speed in the bios. did you check that?
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That's what I'm checking now. Hopefully I can get it back to normal speed.
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I've disabled all power management in the BIOS, and it still shows 134MHz.
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Is this 134 Mhz from dmesg output or from cat /proc/cpuinfo? Or do even both show the same?
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| jay wrote: | | Is this 134 Mhz from dmesg output or from cat /proc/cpuinfo? Or do even both show the same? |
They both show the same.
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hi, i have the same notebook.
In the bios there is an option about the "boot-speed" or so... it seems like you have set it to "compatible". change this option to "500" an all will be right....
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