Powernowd and laptop.

[Michael Nowag]

José María Serralde Ruiz wrote:

>Every time I start my laptop (emachines 6805 64 bits 1.8 Mhz - VIA
>chipset) without AC power, the system does not scale according to the
>CPU's usage.  This is related to the fact that $ cat /proc/cpufreq
>presents the following output:
>
>          minimum CPU frequency  -  maximum CPU frequency  -  policy
>CPU  0       800000 kHz ( 44 %)  -     800000 kHz ( 44 %)  -  userspace
>
>after having started with battery.  Even after plugging the AC adapter,
>the problem persists.
>
>If I start the system with the plugged AC adapter, scaling works without
>a problem.
>
>My Ubuntu Hoary version:
>
>Linux version 2.6.10-5-k7 (buildd at terranova) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian
>1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)) #1 Tue Apr 5 12:56:05 UTC 2005
>
>I did some bug tracking for this fault before, but it disappeared after
>some distro updates.  Unfortunately the fault reappeared now, and I want
>some community information before trying to start a bug report.
>
>Any information about this?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
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try using emifreqd instead. You can manually scale the cpu frequency via 
a gnome-applet. I find this way more usefull than the automatic 
load-related scaling with powernowd.


Michael