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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:14:29
Message-Id: 4D1CCBB2.2080308@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem by Mick
1 On 12/30/2010 09:55 AM, Mick wrote:
2 > On Thursday 30 December 2010 16:45:07 Bill Longman wrote:
3 >> On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote:
4 >>> Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND
5 >>> ?
6 >>
7 >> Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it
8 >> would behave at top speed if I set it to "performance". No luck, though.
9 >> And I can easily change the governor. It swaps out to any of the
10 >> installed governors with aplomb, although I have to do this manually. I
11 >> can't change governors from gkrellm, for instance. If I change it
12 >> manually, the new governor shows up there, but it's read-only so to speak.
13 >
14 > Is there a plugin for gkrellm that does governors? Can't find it on mine.
15
16 Yes, the CPUfreq plugin is in x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpufreq