cpu frequency scaling

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:21 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    Can anyone post some info or link on configuring
> the cpuspeed daemon that comes with FC4. It's working,
> but only with two steps: 50% and 100%. .. My cpu says
> 8 steps are available, but I don't know what
> frequencies I can configure. Also, when I try to edit
> available_scaling_frequencies, I get an error that the
> file is READONLY. (I tried echo -n, vi, and gedit all
> as root.)
> 
The file is likely marked as read-only for the owner (root).
With vi that can be overcome by doing a forced write ( :w! ).

>    I'd also like to know more about the governor
> modes. I was getting help setting up powernowd, but I
> could quite get it to work. (Mostly because I'm a
> noob, I'm sure.)
> 
> TIA,
> -j
> 
> 
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