On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 17:06 +0100, Andrea Mastellone wrote: > Chong Yu Meng wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > One other problem I am seeing in FC6 is that when I try to start the > > cpuspeed service, I get this error: > > > > FATAL: Module speedstep_centrino not found > > > > This is my configuration in /etc/cpuspeed.conf: > > I am writing here since I have noticed that there is other cpu speed > daemon: cpufreqd. Cpufreqd (hosted at sourceforge) is much better that > cpuspeed since it supports different governors and rulez (e.g. it can > set the cpu at high preformance when playing a video with mplayer). > > Unfortunately, cpufreqd is not included iin the most recent version > (2.2.0) in the Fedora repository, I have found the 1.2 (that is very old > !) on the dries. So I have installed and configured it manually, by > untarring and making. > > One thing: the module speedstep_centrino is no longer used in the kernel > 2.6.18, it seems. Use the ondemand governor instead. > Thanks for the fast reply, Artu ! Currently, I have the cpuspeed service turned off. I don't know if it is actually useful to me, because I generally don't watch videos or play games on this laptop, but I am interested in using cpuspeed just to see what it does. How do I use the ondemand governor ? Is there something I need to add in /etc/cpuspeed.conf? Thanks again ! Regards, Pascal Chong
