cpu frequency scaling

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:44:53AM +0200, hbspam at gmx.de wrote:

> AFAIK most packages like cpudynd, cpufreqd and powernowd (powernowd is
> installed on my Sony Vaio during the default Ubuntu installation) need the
> cpu scaling governor stuff in "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0" but it's empty
> on my system. Do I need to recompile the kernel or is there any other option
> ? (I hate recompling the kernel, takes hours if you don't manually deselect
> every not needed driver and that takes also hours and then you've deselected
> one driver too many and have to start all over.)

No, you do not need to recompile the kernel.  Probably you need to load one
of the CPU frequency scaling drivers.  Which one you need depends on your
CPU.

ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq

will give you a list.

-- 
 - mdz