Trying to get teh ondemand power governor to work

[Scott J. Henson]

Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> If I wasn't on a system using sudo I'd simply su - to reoot and enter the
> command:
>
> echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
>
> How can i do similar on Ubuntu? I've tried
>
> sudo "echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor"
>
> but that just returns an error (which unfortunately I cannot recall at the
> moment and I'm not near my Ubuntu box).
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction as I know I should be able to
> do it but for sime reason my brain just can't work out how!!
>   

The short fix to your problem is 'sudo su -'  That gives you a root
terminal after putting in your password.  Also sudo -i does the same
thing from my memory, but I go with sudo su out of bad habit. 

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Scott Henson
LCSEE Systems Staff
WVU MAE Undergraduate
Ubuntu User