cpuspeed usage

[lwj]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 08:59, Satish Balay wrote:
> <snip>
> >>> ls -l /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
> >> This directory does not exist on my FC1 machine. What is it supposed
> >> to be for?
> <snip>
> 
> This is a 2.6 kernel/FC2 thingy. With FC1 - you have to manually load
> the 'driver' for the CPU you have.  For Pentium-M - I do:
> 
> modprobe speedstep-centrino
> 
> And for userland controller - I install cpudyn from
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/cpudyn/cpudyn-1.0-1.1.fc1.dag.i386.rpm
> 
> Satish
> 
Ahhhh, this is all starting to make sense to me. My laptop seemed very
slow with FC2. I think I have seen others comment that they where having
similar problems. After looking through this thread I discovered that my
CPU seemed to always be set to the lowest frequency, even when plugged
in. After playing around with the stuff in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq I was able to set my CPU to it
highest speed and it soo much faster. My governor is set to "userspace"
so I guess my problem is that I am not actually running a user space
governor. So,

Is there a user space governor that comes with FC2?


Someone mentioned a Gnome CPU frequency applet, I can't seem to find it
on my laptop. Is this something I need to install separate?