On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Brendan Sleight wrote: > I now suspect the hardware to be at fault - insufficient power to run > process at higher speeds rather then acpid > > My normal power supply connector is not operating and I have to power > the laptop via a docking station. The cheap generic (non-dell) power > supply is aging and now appears to be not supplying enough power to > power the laptop and the docking station. On boot-up I get a warning > regarding insufficent power and have the the load the BIOS using > battery power. > > This is related to other users experiences, [1][2] > > 1: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10106 > 2: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=+403651
Not mine, however. Note also that I can and do manually set the max frequency back to 2201MHz by tweaking /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq by invoking 'laptop_mode force auto'. -- TimC 'Vegetarian' -- it's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'. -- Red Green 'tofu' -- Old Eskimo word. Means "whale snot". -- GB in ASR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]