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#1 2006-08-18 05:45:31

allucid
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Registered: 2006-01-06
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Automagically changing cpu governors

I want to use 'ondemand' when on battery power and 'performance' when on A/C. What is a good way to set this up? I saw the cpufreq(d) daemons but they don't seem to have this option (as far as I could tell).

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#2 2006-08-18 14:43:24

phrakture
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Re: Automagically changing cpu governors

this should be easy to do by adding an acpi handler for battery/ac that simply does something like

if on_ac; then
   modprobe cpufreq_performance
   cpufreq-set -g performance
else
   modprobe cpufreq_ondemand
   cpufreq-set -g ondemand
fi

You don't need cpufreqd for this, as that is a userspace governor (it does not use ondemand/performance, it uses cpufreq_userspace)

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#3 2006-08-18 15:45:57

Pierluigi
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Re: Automagically changing cpu governors

I use acpid (loaded in DAEMONS array), and

...
...
    ac_adapter)
                case "$2" in
                        AC0)
                                case "$4" in
                                        00000000)
                                                echo -n "powersave" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
                                                
                                        ;;
                                        00000001)
                                                echo -n "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
                                                
                                        ;;
                                esac
                                ;;
                        *) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
                esac
...
...

in /etc/acpid/handler.sh

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#4 2006-08-19 11:46:22

patroclo7
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Registered: 2006-01-11
Posts: 915

Re: Automagically changing cpu governors

I agree with the suggestions above, but the mention of cpufreqd is actually unfair: it is not a mere userspace governor (as, e.g., powernowd); also in the default configuration, it changes governor in different situations. I do not like is over-complex configuration so I do not use it anymore, however I am pretty sure you can do what you want also with cpufreqd (please do not identify the cpufreqd package with the cpufreq daemon in the cpufrequtils package).


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#5 2006-08-19 14:14:32

karsten
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Registered: 2006-07-14
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Re: Automagically changing cpu governors

what if you don't have a powersave governor? my system just has ondemand and performance.

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#6 2006-08-19 15:24:11

allucid
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Registered: 2006-01-06
Posts: 259

Re: Automagically changing cpu governors

karsten wrote:

what if you don't have a powersave governor? my system just has ondemand and performance.

You need to enable support in the kernel.

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