laptop-mode disabled in kernel?

[Mitch Thompson]

Joan Tur wrote:

>Es Dimarts, 11 de Juliol de 2006 00:12, en marc va escriure:
>| In Dapper, my laptop fan never turns off after the first few minutes. It
>| is always on. Whereas, in Windows, it rarely comes on. I'm pretty sure
>| that this is because the disk never spins down.
>Are you sure your cpu is scaling fine (*)?  Paste the output of the following 
>command:
>
>sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
>
>(*) if you've got more than one cpu (centrino duo for instance), then you have 
>to run:
>sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
>
>  
>
Thanks for pointing this out. I haven't spent much time tooling around 
/sys. Lots of interesting stuff there. Reminds me of when I discovered I 
could cat most anything in /proc.

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