trying to scale the cpu freq

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 06:51:47PM +0200, massimo wrote:

> i have cpufreq_userspace  and cpufreq_powersave loaded and i know that i
> need to 
> 
> # echo "powersave"
> > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> 
> in order to scale the freq.

You do not need to do this; it is automatically done by powernowd.

> but the problem is:
> 
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/  is empty!
> 
> why?
> 
> my cpu cannot support the freq reduction?

Perhaps not.  You can try the various speedstep-* modules and see if loading
one of them helps, but powernowd should try them all before giving up.

-- 
 - mdz