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gman · Help & Support (Stable)

Apparently the recent Ubuntu release(9.04) was a step back in terms of graphics for the intel 945gm graphics support. It seems that using an older version will fix the issue. I'm not sure if this issue affects the eee 900 since it uses the gma900 graphics from intel, but that's my guess. I think the issue might be fixed in the 9.10 version of ubuntu, so you could try that too.

gman · Help & Support (Stable)

Is p4-clockmod what I'm using when I use the cpufreq-set command? If so, it only sets the cpu to 1333MHz. So while it's a good improvement, it's still not quite enough for some things(high quality video stutters in VLC, although media player plays it fine so it's not a big deal.) As for gaming, the extra speed would also be nice.

So yeah, I'll probably wait a couple months and flash the BIOS. The wind, I believe, recently got a BIOS update that fixes the issue so hopefully Acer will follow suit in a while. Until then, it's too easy to just disable ACPI while at home and re-enable it when I'm out and about. Even without ACPI though, 3.5 hrs isn't too bad. I could probably find a power outlet before it dies anyway.

And yeah, it's not that I'm just not used to the slow speed of a netbook. I did install the full version of #!, although I think it was the full netbook version. Either way, Windows XP wasn't nearly as slow as this is when it's set to 800MHz, so I'm pretty sure it's not my perceptions.

gman · Help & Support (Stable)

Yeah, seems to have cut the batter life down to 3.5 hrs(on a 6 cell acer aspire one). Was surfing the web and watching movies occasionally(with an ethernet cable, not wireless). Prior that that it was lasting about 4.5hrs doing about the same things. At least it's a solution for when I'm connected to a power outlet.

Going to flash the BIOS in a couple days probably and see if that helps.

gman · Help & Support (Stable)

Disabling ACPI fixes the issue. Not sure what it breaks since it seems like ACPI is involved in a lot of things, but at least the netbook isn't incredibly slow now.

gman · Help & Support (Stable)

So apparently it's a BIOS issue, which still might not be fixed(at least not for the acer netbooks). But apparently disabling ACPI could fix it, since it only has 2 states apparently, according to ACPI(800MHz and 1333MHz).

See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1209082&page=2

"I rmmod'ed acpi-cpufreq and modprobed p4-clockmod and it went up to 1.66." Whatever this means, it seems to have fixed the problem for one guy.

gman · Help & Support (Stable)

Kinda sorta fixed it. cpufreq-set -f 1600 sets it to 1333.00(the max cpufreq says it can go).

gman · Help & Support (Stable)

I was wondering why Crunchbang was running so slowly. Then I checked the cpu with cat /proc/cpuinfo and it's reported as being 800MHz(for a 1600MHz atom netbook). Is there any option in Crunchbang I can change to fix this, or a way to use the command line to set it to back 1600MHz?

I accidently deleted all the hidden files in my home directory, like a retard, but they all seem to have been restored. That's the only thing I can think of that might've caused this.

Anyway, this is kinda annoying since some things, like flash and larger video files are now choppy.

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#1 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » CrunchBang on eeepc 900 » 2010-01-14 02:24:11

#2 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » CPU Permanently Underclocked » 2010-01-09 15:54:03

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