Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:

Hi I have a compaq R4000 with the 2.4GIG AMD 64 bit. 4000+ rated. proc cpuinfo reports cpu Mhz as 997.481 Do I have to run the 64 bit version to have things run correctly? I just have the normal 4.2 loaded at this time. The laptop seems slow for 4000+ as reflected by the cpu Mhz also. Any thoughts on running the 32 bit version of 4.2 vs the 64 bit version of 4.2?

AMD PowerNow! may reduce the clock to increase battery life. Try running a heafty video or 3D application while cat'ing /proc in the background (maybe a quick for loop that sleeps every few seconds).

There can be compatibility issues with AMD PowerNow!, older kernels, older BIOSes, etc...

-- Bryan

P.S. How are you liking the Athlon 64 / ATI Xpress 200 chipset combination under Linux? I'm very tempted to drop $800-900 on an Averec (sp?) light (4.4lbs.), 12" portable with the Turion 64 / Xpress 200 combination. I was hopeful that nVidia would enter the space with a NV44 (GeForce 61x0/nForce 4x0) since I explicitly trust their APIC/ACPI/I2C logic and MCP-04 peripherals under Linux. But that doesn't seem to be happening.