On Mon, 03 May 2004, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >On my laptop, connecting the AC adapter causes the speed to immediately
> >increase to the maximum.  I have been unable to find the code that does
> >this, but I'd like to disable it.
> 
> It's probably the BIOS on your system.  Check the BIOS for settings 
> that might control this.  Are you using the ACPI code on your laptop?  
> If not, then it's almost certainly the BIOS doing this "for" you.

The only vaguely-related BIOS setting is something like "Enable Speed
Step: yes/no".  I am using ACPI.

It's no big deal; my load average monitor will crank the speed down again
over the course of a few minutes.

--apb (Alan Barrett)