Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Thursday 30 December 2010 16:45:07 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote:
> > Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND
> > ?
> 
> Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it
> would behave at top speed if I set it to "performance". No luck, though.
> And I can easily change the governor. It swaps out to any of the
> installed governors with aplomb, although I have to do this manually. I
> can't change governors from gkrellm, for instance. If I change it
> manually, the new governor shows up there, but it's read-only so to speak.

Is there a plugin for gkrellm that does governors?  Can't find it on mine.


> I don't know if the idle controller has anything to do with this but
> here is what my idle controller looks like:
> 
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle
> 08:43:14# ls -l;cat current_*
> total 0
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 30 08:43 current_driver
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 30 08:43 current_governor_ro
> intel_idle
> menu

Although different CPU my cpuidle is exactly as shown above.
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Regards,
Mick

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