On Friday 31 December 2010 01:22:11 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 12/30/2010 02:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > Am 2010-12-30 18:54, schrieb Bill Longman:
> >> On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> >>> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a
> >>> live-cd?
> >> 
> >> Well, if I change the BIOS to turn off SpeedStep, it goes to 2.67
> >> GHz.....works great!
> > 
> > good to hear. So it is solved?
> 
> LOL! Well, if by "solved" you mean that I am able to use the full power
> of my CPU, then, yes, it is solved. However, it is now completely
> incapable of having its CPU controlled for power, so once I go on
> batteries, I have about an hour and a half....so in that sense, no, it's
> not solved. No, it's not solved. I am going to burn an ISO and boot one
> of those "other" distros that shall remain nameless and see if there is
> something strange with my Gentoo kernel madness or whether it's this
> machine.

Hmm ... could it be a buggy BIOS?  Are you running the latest firmware for it?

Have you diff'ed the LiveCD kernel and yours?
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Regards,
Mick