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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

How does one set cpu clock speed in BL?

I have a DELL Latitude D600 1.6GHz laptop running at 600MHz ever since 
some chip in it went bad which communicates with the DELL power supply 
identical chip (Dallas).  Unless both chips work, the speed is throttled 
by 'speedstep' (which also cuts cpu speed to save battery when full speed 
is not needed).  (Also battery refuses to charge).  This is DELL's way of 
forcing you to buy lots of new DELL psus and laptops.  There is a cpu 
scaling program by Realmark for Windows to set speed to maximum (16 
instead of 6 x 100MHz).

Linux has cpufreq utility (script?) which sets
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
which may require acpi to even exist.

Do I need an acpi kernel or module to set cpu multiplier?



Sindi Keesan