powernowd

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Jonathan Berry wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:24:40 -1000, Amy M <amymom at hawaiilinux.us> 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