Comment 15 for bug 379873

This affects both of my computers, exactly as described in the first post.

Athlon 64 x2 4000 on Asus M2N-E motherboard running Lucid 32-bit
actual clock: 2362MHz
reported: 1000-2100Mhz (frequency scaling enabled in bios)
reported: 2362MHz (frequency scaling disabled in bios)

Phenom II x2 555BE on Gigabyte ga-ma785gm-us2h running Lucid 64-bit
actual clock: 3750MHz
reported: 800-3000MHz (frequency scaling enabled in bios)
reported: 3750MHz (frequency scaling disabled in bios)

Benchmarks confirm that this is only a reporting problem, both machines are actually running at higher speed than is reported when frequency scaling (Cool'N'Quiet) is enabled in bios.

Although everything seems to work fine, it would be nice if someone paid attention to this bug as it was a source of confusion for me (and probably others) and there is little documentation.