CPU speed not reported correctly

[Mike Jakubik]

Michael W. Oliver said:

> 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

This is normal for AMD laptops. I have an Emachine M5310, and the CPU
speed varies on it. If i right click on my computer in Windows XP, the
reported frequency is almost always different. Strangely enough in FreeBSD
its always the max though, i belive this technology may require a proper
driver for the frequency to be adjusted. I would check your BIOS settings.