Chance

That does seem to have done the trick brilliantly, thank you! :D Now it's -all- fixed and good. I think you guys have made a convert of me, from Ubuntu. This has been fixed, the resolution issue could not be. Thanks so much, everybody. You've really made my week.

I added the blacklist line like I was supposed to, but it continues to load the module on each boot anyway, but I can just unload it at each start until I find a more permanent solution. That tiny hiccup aside, my problem is solved! Thanks to everyone that helped, I greatly appreciate it.

I believe this driver is your problem. Please see this bug report: bugzilla.kernel.org

It appears that a patch has been submitted, but has never been pushed into mainline.

 

So for now, you could try unloading the module with

modprobe -r p4_clockmod

and if that works, then blacklist it.

That worked perfectly, thank you! How do I blacklist a process? I've never had to do it before.

uname -a

Gives:

Linux localhost 2.6.27.14-desktop586-1mnb #1 SMP Wed Feb 18 03:04:31 EST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz GNU/Linux

And

cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/; grep . *

Gives:

affected_cpus:0
cpuinfo_cur_freq:13800000
cpuinfo_max_freq:13800000
cpuinfo_min_freq:1725000
related_cpus:0
scaling_available_frequencies:1725000 3450000 5175000 6900000 8625000 10350000 12075000 13800000 
scaling_available_governors:ondemand conservative powersave userspace performance 
scaling_cur_freq:13800000
scaling_driver:p4-clockmod
scaling_governor:performance
scaling_max_freq:13800000
scaling_min_freq:1725000
scaling_setspeed:<unsupported>

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Gives me:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 1
model name	: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
stepping	: 3
cpu MHz		: 13800.000
cache size	: 128 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up pebs bts
bogomips	: 3383.34
clflush size	: 64
power management:

Sorry about the delay, was out all day and just got the replies.

Edit: And this is what x86info gave me

[chance@localhost ~]$ x86info
x86info v1.23.  Dave Jones 2001-2008
Feedback to <davej@redhat.com>.

Found 1 CPU
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
EFamily: 0 EModel: 0 Family: 15 Model: 1 Stepping: 3
CPU Model: Pentium 4 (Willamette) [E0]
Processor name string: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
Type: 0 (Original OEM)	Brand: 10 (Intel® Celeron® processor)
Number of cores per physical package=1
Number of logical processors per socket=1
Number of logical processors per core=1
APIC ID: 0x0	Package: 0  Core: 0   SMT ID 0

Ps- thanks for the welcome!

So I have a computer here, that for a number of reasons, mainly that Ubuntu refuses to get my screen resolution right, I have installed Mandriva on. For the most part, everything is sunshine and butterflies and I love it. For the most part.

Madriva thinks my CPU speed is a good chunk less than it is- it reads the processor name right, which includes the speed it SHOULD be- 1.7 GHz-, but the speed listed is wrong. Before we go any further- it's not CPU scaling. I have the little CPU scaling monitor open, and it says 13.80GHz (100%). Yes. It's reading it as considerably more than it really is. Some info from my hardware profiles:

Identification

Processor ID: ‎1

Vendor: ‎GenuineIntel

Model name: ‎Intel® Celeron® CPU 1.70GHz

Cpuid family: ‎15

Model: ‎1

Model stepping: ‎3

Connection

Vendor ID: ‎0x0000

Device ID: ‎0x0000

Sub vendor ID: ‎0x0000

Sub device ID: ‎0x0000

Performances

Frequency (MHz): ‎13800.000

Cache size: ‎128 KB

Bogomips: ‎3383.32

Anything you folks can do to help me? Programs that check my CPU speed, like SecondLife, claim it's too low, despite it's real speed being higher than the requirements. I'd love to have this working as it should, and you guys certainly seem to be the ones to ask. If you need any additional info, let me know, and I'll get it for you.