CPU frequency went down

[Mark]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, A. Kromic <akromic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've worked around the problem now by using the newest kernel that
> scales normally (the above mentioned 2.6.32-24). Now when it is (most
> probably) sure the bug is in the kernel, I need to determine if I should
> post a new bug against it, or is it already covered by one...
>
If it is a kernel bug, it may be hardware specific.  I am currently
running a Dell Precision with dual Xeon CPUs on a Dell motherboard
with the Intel 82801JI chipset and scaling works fine for me:

$ speed
Current speed: 1596.000 1596.000 1596.000 1596.000 1596.000 1596.000
1596.000 1596.000 MHz
Maximum speed: 2261.000 2261.000 2261.000 2261.000 2261.000 2261.000
2261.000 2261.000 MHz

Perhaps your CPU is not 100% Intel/AMD compatible?