CPU speed not reported correctly

[Michael W. Oliver]

On 2004-12-29T16:57:38-0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:25:55PM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ (801.83-MHz K8-class CPU)
> .
> > OK, here is my question:  Why is the CPU speed reported as 801.83MHz?
> > Is there something really wrong with my setup here?  I have this machine
> > configured to dual boot with the other OS being the x64 version of XP,
> > and it reports a 2.2GHz CPU (for what it's worth...).

> You've some how gotten your Athlon64 processor in Cool-n-Quiet (ie,
> PowerNOW) cool, low-power mode.  If you do a cold boot into FreeBSD, what
> CPU speed is reported?  By chance is this a laptop and not a desktop.

Thanks for the reply David.

When booting cold, the same speed is reported -- 801.83-MHz.  Yes, this
is a laptop (Sager 4750-V).

entire output of `dmesg -a':
http://michael.gargantuan.com/yabbse/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=309.0;id=17

other info about this laptop:
http://michael.gargantuan.com/yabbse/index.php/board,44.0.html

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Michael W. Oliver
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