Hi,

I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 (2.6.15-26-686) on a Lenovo laptop. I've been trying to enable CPU scaling on my Celeron M processor. I want to use the ondemand governor. At this point I'd settle for it just working, but the ondemand governor seems much preferable to userspace solutions like powernowd.

I found a possible solution at this locatino on the web, plenz.com/thinkpad_R50e#cpufreq (can't post url's yet, sorry) which seems to be a solution, but I don't understand it.

For instance, I'm told to "load the following kernel modules: p4_clockmod, cpufreq_userspace and speedstep_lib. Best is to add these modules to /etc/modules."

How do I do that? Should I really do that? Then the writer suggests I "set the CPU frequency manually, by echo'ing the MHz values in one of the files placed under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq. It is however much handier to use a governor or a daemon for this. I used to use cpufreqd to do that. Now I use the kernel governor ondemand to do that job."

Again, this sounds like what I want to do, but how?

There is also a script on that site, but I didn't think ondemand needed one. I'm very unsure about all of this.

I would have attached the file I made with my lscip and dmesg but I can't seem to attach files. I'm going to post an edited version of both. I'm those things which I know aren't related, because they work fine. If someone could tell me how to do this better I would appreciate that as well.

Best,

UPDATE:

Ok, so I removed the LSPCI and DMSG outputs because I have since rebuilt my kernel, compiling the 2.6-17-11 version. In it I selected a Celeron M processor and added all the possibilities for powermanagement, enabling powernowd and governors in the kernel. However, it still doesn't want to scale back my CPU speed. I think, however, that it is set to use "performance" as the default. How do i change that, because I think that's all I have left to do at this point.

Ok, so I found one solution.

I recompiled my kernel, enabled ondemand, and changed my processor to celeron (petium M compatible). Restarted, changed the default governor to ondemand, uninstalled powernowd.

Then I was in scaling heaven. The downside is that celeron M's don't get the battery improvement's that pentium m's do from this. Though, I get the sense that my fan kicks in less often and last less time when the CPU is running lower.

I'll post better instructions if someone requires it, for now, I just want you to know that it's possible. What would be ideal is if those changes could be made against a running kernel. Since making your own non-vanilla means the forums are less useful for troubleshooting anytime someone says the command "uname -r" is needed.

Best,