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So, last time I asked for support, I mentioned that my CPU was underclocked to ~600 MHz.

Now, I have conky running and I've been figuring out something about it because it is displaying a different speed. (By the way, I haven't figured out how to make it automatically run at start-up. I couldn't find anything so I need help on that part, too. Thanks.)

It says, Frequency: 900 MHz. That's what's odd. I was beginning to think that it was displaying the advertised speed when I found myself looking at an old screenshot with a conky in it telling my that my CPU clock speed is at 630 MHz.

See, that's what I find odd.

So, what? Did Mageia automatically tweak this thing so that it can run like this? Because I didn't do anything. And I really haven't seen it like that before.

- Joan

P.S. I really have been Googling and searching this forum for anything about conky on Mageia 2 and I can't find anything. So, I'd really appreciate it if any of you guys can point me to something, somewhere that can help me. Thanks.

P.P.S. I keep getting something about "a nil value". The conky scripts I'm trying to use are the ones from the ArchLinux wiki.

You probably want to install cpufrequtils and run cpufreq-info as root and post the output here.
EDIT: What you could use for conky probably better is the content of the following files:

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/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq

Those are pseudo-files and should hold the current values.

see http://wiki.eeeuser.com/mandriva_2008.1_on_eee_pc_faq#a4

If you remove the p4_clockmod module you will see the spped is reported at 630MHz

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su
rmmod p4_clockmod
cat /proc/cpuinfo

By the way Joan. Did you notice Question 14 from the eeeuser wiki?

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/mandriva_2008.1_on_eee_pc_faq#a14

Install the kernel-netbook-latest package on your eee and you can use 2GB of RAM

As for other optimisations for the eee :-

Minimize disk writes to prevent flash memory wear
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To do this edit /etc/fstab and add the following lines at the end:

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs noatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs noatime 0 0

Note that any files written to these directories will be erased on reboot (but are kept during suspend/resume). Also check that your fstab file has your SSD or SDHC partitions mounted with the 'noatime' option. For example:

# Entry for /dev/sdc5 :
UUID=0c0701d1-5dc3-4c9e-982d-53ee393f1fb8 / ext3 noatime 1 1

(taken from http://wiki.eeeuser.com/mandriva_2008.1_eeepc_installation_howto )