On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Jonathan Berry wrote: > 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. Nope - this is not true. cpuspeed/powernowd work with APM (on a P-M laptop) Are you sure you have a mobile CPU - and not a desktop CPU (in a laptop shell)? What does 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' say? Satish
