-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Satish Balay Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 2:26 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: cpuspeed On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed I have this utility set to run on startup. Only thing it > won't start. If I try to run it from the command line, I get an error > that it could not open file for writing: > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor > > I guess this was installed by FC 2 as I did not notice it in RH 9. > > I tried to create the file as root, but it would not let me. > > What exactly does cpuspeed do? Is it a good utility to use, etc? Do you have a laptop with a mobile cpu that supports intel-speedstep/amd-pownernow? If so, you'll notice cpuspeed will control the frequency scaling as supported by the above in hardware. (primarily for ehancing battery life) Guess I don't need this one. I'm not using a laptop. Thanks
