Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt <dawit...@sbcglobal.net
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt <dawit...@sbcglobal.net
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
I have a cq40-115au latop with AMD Turion x2 RM-70 processor.
I want to enable powernowd. After i compiled it from source
Because you built your own, it becomes more difficult for the
rest
of us to help you. The Debian 'powernowd' package has been
altered
from upstream to put its configuration options in
/etc/default/powernowd. My answers below are from my own
experiences using the Debian 'powernowd' package; you will
have to
read the documentation in the source code, and figure out how to
translate my answers to work for your own setup. (In my view, it
was a waste of time for you to compile your own 'powernowd',
since
Debian already has the package.)
i had removed it (now) with #make clean
#rm -f /usr/bin/powernowd
and installed powernowd package, enabled needed modules
#modprobe cpufreq_userspace powernow-k8
So, did that work or not?
i'm still having the same failure message, there's something amiss from
what i had done?
Definitely. If your setup was correct, it would be working.
I would like to see the output from the following commands:
ls -dl /s*
mount
lsmod
cat /etc/default/powernowd
So, you have an old kernel that defaults to "performance". That
will cause your CPU to run at full speed, instead of cycling down
when not needed.
this had caused my laptop to shutdown when playing games like secret
maryo chronicles
That would be an overheating issue. You have a hardware problem with
your laptop not keeping itself cool. CPU frequency controlling software
is meant to extend your battery life, not to act as a bandaid for
inadequate CPU cooling. Any time that you start using your laptop
heavily, the software will boost the frequency and you will have the
same problems with shutdowns anyway.
The only problems that will be solved by running 'powernowd' (or
switching to CPU_FREQ_ONDEMAND) are longer battery life and lower temps
when not being used for demanding tasks.
What is in /etc/fstab? If you installed using a
Debian installer, you should have a line like this:
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump>
<pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda2 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0
0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
Looks OK.
the last line was just added by me
Oh, I misinterpreted your response as meaning it was already in 'fstab'.
How did you install Debian, so that the sysfs line was _not_ in
'fstab' to begin with?
DW
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