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Old 04-20-2008, 06:12 AM
Darren Salt
 
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Default Re: How to set ACPI governor?

I demand that plenty900@yahoo.com may or may not have written...

> I enjoy compiling my own kernels, removing the NSA code


You view it as "Security Encumbered Linux", then? :-)

> and getting just the stuff my PC needs. I just created a custom-configured
> version of 2.6.24.5 for my PC. When doing so I was able to set the default
> ACPI governor.


> However I don't see how to set it on the fly from user space. For instance
> in /proc I can't find a file to write to.


> Can anyone point out how to do this?


$ ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq

Basically, write the name of the governor to each scaling_governor.

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