Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

T o n g wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:21:38 +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> > > What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default
> > > (installing as minimum packages as possible)?
> > look at this package cpufrequtils and then look in here
> > /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils
>
> If I don't 'modprobe powernow-k8' manually, this is what I got:
>
>   % aptitude install cpufrequtils
>   The following NEW packages will be installed:
>     cpufrequtils 
>   0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 33.6kB of archives. After unpacking 262kB will be used.
>   Setting up cpufrequtils (004-2) ...
>   CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...disabled, 
> governor not available...done.
>
> Doesn't seem to be helping from my point of view... 

You need to edit /etc/default/cpufrequtils and read the comments.

HTH

Wackojacko