Tecra M5 on Ubuntu 7.04 - running on half the speed

It's quite strange, but I just can't get all the power of my TecraM5. As I said, I mainly use Ubuntu, but the same problem is observable with Fedora, Suse or Mandriva (to cite only a few I've tried).

The performance of my system seems pretty gloomy for the 2 hearts on each run on more than 2 GHz. And when I compare the results to the Geekbench benchmarking program with the results of the same machine, but on the preinstalled WinXP, I can see the performance on Windows is approximately doubled.

I was able to find a utility called "toshset" that shows me that the processor is running in mode 'slow' on linux. But there is no way to force mode 'rapid '. And Yes, the frequency scaling works as expected. If I force the scaling to use only 1 GHz CPU, I get the matching results to the Geekbench.

This 'feature' is quite annoying - my TecraM5 with dual core 2.16 GHz on is significantly slower than TecraM3 of my colleague, both running Ubuntu 7.04

If anyone of the Toshiba tech guys can suggest a solution, I'd be the happiest.

Good day

JB

Hello

Unfortunately nobody Toshiba reads our posts about despair and problems with our "babys", but I suggest you to go to the homepage of toshset and make your questions here because here not many people use feisty on M5. I have a Tecra 9100 with feisty fawn running and it works like a charm :)

Or perhaps indicating an SOS in the ubuntu forums would be useful. :)

Welcome and good luck - may the source be with you

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