powernowd

[Jonathan Berry]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:24:40 -1000, Amy M <amymom at hawaiilinux.us> wrote:
> Someone mentioned powernowd.  It did not work on my Athlon XP system:
> 
> powernowd: PowerNow Daemon v0.90, (c) 2003-2004 John Clemens
> powernowd: Found 1 cpu:
> Couldn't open file: No such file or directory
> Couldn't open file: No such file or directory
> Couldn't open file: No such file or directory
> couldn't open govn's file for writing: No such file or directory
> Couldn't get per-cpu data: Illegal seek
> PowerNowd encountered and error and could not start.

I'm guessing that you have ACPI turned off.  You need ACPI and the
files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/CPU0/cpufreq/ to use powernowd.

Jonathan