On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:24:40 -1000, Amy M <amymom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Someone mentioned powernowd. It did not work on my Athlon XP system: > > powernowd: PowerNow Daemon v0.90, (c) 2003-2004 John Clemens > powernowd: Found 1 cpu: > Couldn't open file: No such file or directory > Couldn't open file: No such file or directory > Couldn't open file: No such file or directory > couldn't open govn's file for writing: No such file or directory > Couldn't get per-cpu data: Illegal seek > PowerNowd encountered and error and could not start. I'm guessing that you have ACPI turned off. You need ACPI and the files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/CPU0/cpufreq/ to use powernowd. Jonathan