Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Rudmer van Dijk <rudmer.van.dijk@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lack of 'ondemand' power govenor
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:05:00
Message-Id: 200609090902.46673.rudmer.van.dijk@casema.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lack of 'ondemand' power govenor by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 On Friday 08 September 2006 02:18, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
2 > On Thursday 07 September 2006 18:06, Brian Litzinger
3 > <brian@××××××××××××.com> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lack
4 >
5 > of 'ondemand' power govenor':
6 > > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:04:17AM +1200, Jamie wrote:
7 > > > Can anyone offer me any ideas on this, a day of Googling has not
8 > > > turned up anything I have found the be useful (although my Google-fu
9 > > > has been proven to be weak before)
10 > >
11 > > If you built the various govenors as modules you have to modprobe them.
12 >
13 > The module name is cpufreq_<governor_name>. In particular, when I was
14 > compiling the ondemand governor as a module it was
15 > at /lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r7/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.ko
16
17 and then you have to put the following line in /etc/conf.d/local.start:
18 echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
19
20 otherwise you would use the default governor that you selected in the kernel
21 options (it is not possible to select the ondemand as default governor)
22
23 Rudmer
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