ACPI performance profile

[Marco Mandl]

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:42:26 +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote:

> You could use gnome-power-manager, which provides an applet that lets you 
> select clock frequencies or which scaling governor shall handle the frequency 
> selection.
> 
> Or you could add a line like
> /usr/bin/echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> to /etc/rc.local to select a specific scaling governor on bootup. In this 
> case, the "ondemand" governor would be selected which adjusts the cpu 
> frequency according to need.

gnome-power-manager is just the daemon. And gnome-power-preferences does
not provide the controls to change the profile. Is there really no better
place to select the profile?

It is no problem to put the line in rc.local. But such things can bring a
lot of troubles later. When there will be relevant preference GUI later, I
will have forgotten this little hack and will wonder why the things are
not working then.

/m