Re: clock speed trouble

2005-05-16 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried noacpi as a kernel option and adding in "toshiba" to /etc/modules, and my machine starts off at full speed. So it doesn't appear to be any of those. I've installed cpufreqd but it complains that I don't have a cpufreq interface in the kernel - should I recompile,

Re: clock speed trouble

2005-05-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
David Hugh-Jones wrote: > Hi > > I have an old Toshiba laptop (c 1999) which uses apm rather than the > modern acpi. Whenever I boot up on battery power, the cpu speed is > incorrectly detected as 48.175 MHz. This makes the system clock run > way too fast, which means my time gets wrong, and also

clock speed trouble

2005-05-13 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Hi I have an old Toshiba laptop (c 1999) which uses apm rather than the modern acpi. Whenever I boot up on battery power, the cpu speed is incorrectly detected as 48.175 MHz. This makes the system clock run way too fast, which means my time gets wrong, and also makes the computer harder to use in