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Ubuntu on ThinkPad T60 frequency scaling weirdness

bochmann Monday 27 of April, 2009
Recently, I've been noticing that my (office) ThinkPad T60 keeps telling me it's CPU runs at just 1GHz, regardless of the CPU load.

cpufreq-info said something like

current policy: frequency should be within 1000 MHz and 1000 Mhz.

Even more interesting, as soon as I unplugged the power, I got the message I expected:

current policy: frequency should be within 1000 MHz and 1.83 GHz.

Solution, thanks to the ThinkWiki article about frequency scaling problems (cache):

Just add

processor.ignore_ppc=1

to the kernel command line. Now frequency scaling and the CPU governors work as expected.