Jerry Geis <geisj at 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. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)