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Comment 18 for bug 663642

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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote : Re: [Bug 663642] Re: DVI doesn't work at BeagleBoard xM rev A3

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:27 AM, andyf <email address hidden> wrote:
> I was able to run Ubuntu 10.10 on my Beagleboard-xM A3 (following the
> instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OMAPMaverickInstall).
> However, it was slow. I checked the /proc/cpuinfo and found out the
> Bogomips was less than 600.
>
> Then I rebooted the BB-xM with the original Angstrom SD card. Checked
> the /proc/cpuinfo and the Bogomips was 999.xx.
>
> Was there anything I did wrong to install Ubuntu 10.10? Please advise!
> Thanks

Angstrom's kernel has cpufreq and PM working, and it overclock the CPU
when needed, something we're not doing by default (because we're
mainly using the upstream 2.6.35 for Maverick).