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radoscak

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 20

How to change default governor to powersave after restart in cpufreq?

/etc/conf.d/cpufreq

governor="powersave"

# valid suffixes: Hz, kHz (default), MHz, GHz, THz
min_freq="800MHz"
max_freq="1.73GHz"

my rc.conf

MODULES=(slhc tg3 ipw2200 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_userspace)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa acpid @hal gdm cpufreq @openntpd)

after restart i have default governor ondemand and i want to have powersave
Can you help how to change it?

Gert

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Registered: 2008-01-30

Posts: 28

Re: How to change default governor to powersave after restart in cpufreq?

I have those lines in my /etc/rc.local

cpufreq-set -c 0 -g powersave 
cpufreq-set -c 1 -g powersave

(my processor is a dual core so I have to set the governor for both cpu)

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nDray

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 143

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Re: How to change default governor to powersave after restart in cpufreq?

in /etc/conf.d/cpufreq

search the wiki for more details on how to set it up.

radoscak

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 20

Re: How to change default governor to powersave after restart in cpufreq?

How you can see It is setted up from wiki, but dont know why it is not working. It should set powersave after restart, dont know why ondemand.