[linux-audio-user] More Mandrake 9.2 fine tuning...Dell latitude live fx box

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Feb 13 07:21:00 EST 2004


On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:08:47 -0500, Chris Pickett wrote:
> >How do you check the speed? Do you mean the settings in the BIOS?
> >Because I also have a Thinkpad...
> 
> I actually took Linux off my laptop a couple of years ago because of 
> this problem (and joined this list in preparation for putting it back on 
> to do audio stuff, yada yada).
> 
> It's to do with some SpeedStep problem (google a little bit, you'll get 
> lots of hits).

I have a similar problem on my dell 8100, its kinda random what speed it
picks. I dont have /proc/cpufreq, but if you run valgrind (eg. "valgrind
echo") it will try to work out hte spu speed.

- Steve



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