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ravicious

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Registered: 2011-06-07

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No powersave governor on CPU Freq list (Gnome Shell extension)

I installed cpupower and CPU Freq extension for Gnome Shell. However, I have only two governors on the list: ondemand and performance.

Why there's no powersave? Is it because my bios or processor (Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T6600 @ 2.20GHz × 2) doesn't support it?

ravicious

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-06-07

Posts: 69

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Re: No powersave governor on CPU Freq list (Gnome Shell extension)

I found out that CPU Freq gets governors list by running cpupower frequency-info -g:

~ $ cpupower frequency-info -g
analyzing CPU 0:
ondemand performance

Do I have to load some modules or install packages? I installed powertop, but nothing has happened.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: No powersave governor on CPU Freq list (Gnome Shell extension)

yes, only ondemand and performance are loaded automatically.

for powersave you need to modprobe cpufreq_powersave .

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2013-02-03 16:06:46)

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