From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PYN1B-0001XK-HQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:14:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06C16E0512; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BB1E05BE for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so3459241pzk.40 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:13:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FLpHwL1fm5xGkZNIaupaK1jNuHcOwJybDG26drsZXuM=; b=TA7pr/sW33hybenCz2ybgRGV/YhCeEitXeqkVWj7o92AS28LxmUS/NOuDF6B/2vS7E JG0ZiIbCrINO6sG+jFjG0mFpncoez5sCcmSYy3gr1BE9gbKi48BqWc5zisZSAWqIuRO5 oCpcL/obiCnFqVk8bLLov82lG6qumm5TMS1C0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SveqBqo4xIfsSJyCZsB2cJEX6izfRGrpyNMkH8uNJCVFQXdVN/aMvGd3PEmxF2gybJ dnSVi26M6VtORATD/3H7+JEu3Qm5nLskP8o+d9lFubDgUmj+IUFphRJKaG0aTI6ZQBkz CwS3AYxWcF/PnDcw9QT6NdK3YSM4A7fp4aaqE= Received: by 10.142.99.12 with SMTP id w12mr5085203wfb.19.1293732790028; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:13:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from [198.186.240.124] (ip18.83.dhcp-acs2.pdx.iinet.com [198.145.83.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x35sm22785881wfd.1.2010.12.30.10.13.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:13:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D1CCBB2.2080308@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:13:06 -0800 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101229 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem References: <201012300759.32175.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4D1CB713.7050304@gmail.com> <201012301755.51589.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201012301755.51589.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fed6b5ec-a1e8-4318-bbbb-77a7f7319b9d X-Archives-Hash: 77f41d78f827d1cac4b6f7eb7035757e On 12/30/2010 09:55 AM, Mick wrote: > 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. Yes, the CPUfreq plugin is in x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpufreq