Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> 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...

At the moment I tried "cpuspeed -C" to run at full speed when AC

I get an error about "Could not open file for writing" /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Jerry