I had a similar problem on my Asus U43JC which runs on an Intel i5-450m
(using Ubuntu 10.10).  The BIOS would limit my frequence at 1.2GHz, no
matter what cpufreq governor I was using, no matter if on the power cord
or on the battery.  To fix this, I added "processor.ignore_ppc=1" to the
kernel boot parameters.

To see if you have the same problem, do a:

$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/bios_limit

In my case, anything less than 2400000 means the workaround is
necessary.  To implement it, just add "processor.ignore_ppc=1" to the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT paramenter in /etc/default/grub, and then
run:

$ sudo update-grub

Reboot.

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[maverick] CPU frequency does not scale up unless all cores are in use
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637845
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