On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 19:58 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:21 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Can anyone post some info or link on configuring > > the cpuspeed daemon that comes with FC4. It's working, > > but only with two steps: 50% and 100%. .. My cpu says > > 8 steps are available, but I don't know what > > frequencies I can configure. Also, when I try to edit > > available_scaling_frequencies, I get an error that the > > file is READONLY. (I tried echo -n, vi, and gedit all > > as root.) > > > The file is likely marked as read-only for the owner (root). > With vi that can be overcome by doing a forced write ( :w! ). > > > I'd also like to know more about the governor > > modes. I was getting help setting up powernowd, but I > > could quite get it to work. (Mostly because I'm a > > noob, I'm sure.) Where are you checking to see how many steps are available? The "stepping" listed under /proc/cpuinfo refers to the manufacturing revision of the cpu, not to the number of power states. Try looking at /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling instead. -- Brian Gaynor www.pmccorp.com FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz canis 10:45:14 up 2:17, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.15, 0.17
