Laptop, CPU scaling, and NVidia

ben darby ben at cvrse.com
Tue Nov 14 12:18:58 UTC 2006


* Steve Kratz wrote:
> I tracked my CPU scaling problem down to something to do with the
> NVidia-glx drivers (and related kernel additions). Upon a fresh install
> of Edgy, CPU scaling works perfectly. After doing the nvidia-glx enable
> (and rebooting) the message "You processor does not support CPU scaling"
> comes up and the Scaling applette shows the proccessor running at 100%
> of the speed it can run.
>  
> Anyone know how to begin troubleshooting this, or is it a bug? Dapper
> never displayed this problem.

are you still running the same kernel as prior to the nvidia-glx install?
i seem to remember it changing from the generic to 386 which may not
support your processor fully. try installing the 686 kernel if its
suitable for your arch.

-- 
ben darby
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