p4-clockmod and possible powernowd regression ?

[Olivier Cortes]

Hi all,

Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> The message is a bit misleading in this case, but withdrawing support for
> scaling on these CPUs was an intentional change.  See:
> 
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7259

i missed it ! thanks.

> This caused major performance problems for many users, and apparently
> doesn't save significantly on power consumption.

Thom May a écrit :
 > No, we removed p4-clockmod from being installed on desktop machines,
 > due to the number of problems it was causing people.

OK. i'll look at the bugzilla. But i can't remember any slow-down or 
hicup on my machine with p4-clockmod so far... It just scales perfectly 
when needed.
I didn't measure the power gain thus.

 > If your machine is a laptop, then it's being incorrectly identified;

no, my machine is a desktop PC.

 > send me the output of `sudo dmidecode`.

i suppose i don't need to send it anymore, 'cause of desktop PC. but i 
can still if you request :)

 > The message that powernowd puts out is a bit missleading; I should
 > probably fix that for this case.

say : " Your machine supports frequency scaling, but p4-clockmod is 
disabled on your machine, see 
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7259 for more info."

Thanks for your answers !!

best regards,

Olivier