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  1. Bug #36014
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 36014

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: [Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:38 +0000, Luka Renko wrote:
> I have also noted similar problem with 686 - it does not scale CPU on HP
> nw8240 (Pentium-M 2.13GHz). I have installed 386 kernel yesterday and
> CPU frequency scaling works (and system does not heat-up as it did
> before).
>
> I am not sure if this bug was introduced with dapper-updates or if it
> was in 2.6.15.23, as I have used only 386 kernels during Dapper testing
> (and scaling worked all the time), while I got 686 just after Dapper
> release when I did clean install (but then also got updated kernel very
> soon after).

To be honest, most ppl don't need the 686 kernel. 386 kernel should work
fine (if not better) in most cases.