Both I believe however today when I was on with the tech it was definetly
without the battery. It was beside the pc on my desk : )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Which is correct? /proc/cpuinfo
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, cmead wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just got a new IBM laptop. In the BIOS it reads 700 Mhz it is a Intel
> > PIII. As it was advertised. However, in /proc/cpuinfo it reads 546Mhz.
What
> > gives? I have never come across this dicrepency before on any of my
systems!
> > Although this is my first laptop experience with Linux.
> >
> > I find it hard to believe that RH 7.0 Linux could be this far off. Am I
> > right? I thinking that IBM cold have hard coded the BIOS to read 700Mhz.
It
> > is my understanding that Linux gets its hardware info like the CPU speed
> > directly from the BIOS. Is that right what do you guys think?
> >
> > I talked to IBM tech support they say that its Redhat that is wrong and
they
> > don't support it. So my only option is to re-install Caldera 2.4 which
came
> > pre-installed. However, IMHO, its going to report the same speed.
> >
> > Would love to hear your opinions.
> >
> > Thanx
> > CM
> >
> >
> Is this speed reading when running on batteries, or when plugged in? If I
> remember correctly, one of the powersaving that a laptop does is to slow
> down the CPU.
>
>
>
>
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