Proposal for resolving powernowd/apmd vs. (k)powersave conflict

[Aurel Schwarzentruber]

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 22:20, Michel D'HOOGE wrote:

> I also noticed that the CPU frequency doesn't change automatically -at
> least according to Kpowersave which always shows the highest freq
> available.

Have you tried to put CPUFREQ_CONTROL="userspace" in /etc/powersave/cpufreq ? 
What does /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq say?

> I have to switch to the 'powersave' setting to really reduce 
> power consumption. And then, given the diminished responsiveness of the PC,
> I think it works (KPowersave says 800MHz). And after a resume from STR,
> Kpowersave always displays 800MHz when I think it is really more than that.

This is expected since 'powersave' always sets the lowest frequency.

cheers
Aurel