[solved, kind of] wrong cpu frequency on one cpu

[Klayman]

Hi.

My problem would be that the /proc/cpuinfo file tells me that the frequency of the CPU0 is 1.6GHz, while it should be 2.4GHz. All the remaining cores have the frequency displayed correctly. (the governor is performance)
The cpufreq-info tells me that the frequency range for the first core is 1.6GHz - 1.6GHz, while for the rest it is 1.6GHz - 2.4GHz.
Actually the displayed frequency on my Q6600 for CPU0 is always 1.6GHz, no matter what cpu governor I use, no matter what the load is on the CPU.

On the other side
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq tells me 160000,
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq tells me 2400000
and
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq tells me the correct frequency that I would expect depending on what governor I use.

I'm using the 2.6.29-r5 kernel.

If I boot up the gentoo boot cd, then /proc/cpuinfo contains correct information.

So my questions are:

Why is /proc/cpuinfo is incorrect? If the /proc/cpuinfo is correct then whats with the /sys/... information and why is my first core is not functioning correctly?
What kernel config would fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

Regards: IW

[g.e.n.t.u.x.]

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[Klayman]

I have found the source of the problem (actually by accident ).
The problem was, that in the BIOS I used some hand mad settings to the CPU and the RAM frequency (was not overclocking tough).
If I set the autodetect mode in my mobo, then everything works fine.

Actually before finding the problem, I have checked a lot of things.
I found out, that all my cores were running on the appropriate frequency, and only cpufreq-info reported some bad data.
If calling the command as a user, then the first core was always reported to be running on 1.63GHz, and the range was 1.63-163GHz.
If running cpufreq-info as root, then the reported current frequency was good, but the range for the first core was still 1.63-163GHz.
Could this be a bug of cpufreq-info? Shall I report it? It seems to me that is someone overclocks or makes custom settings to his/her CPU, then cpufreq-info will report bad info on the firs core.

Regards: IW