Comment 11 for bug 152808

This should not be a low priority bug. It contributes to the headlines that Ubuntu has a worse battery life than windows. Netbook users who need battery life want to turn powersave on.

The problem is that /etc/init.d/ondemand will after 60 seconds of booting change the frequency scaler to ondemand. This one size fits all is terrible. It should set the frequency scaler to whatever it was set to at last shutdown. If you want performance, it should stay on performance. If you need battery life, it should stay on powersave.

At the moment, even if you change to powersave at login, after 60 seconds from boot, it will switch back to on demand. This is very annoying. The simple solution is to check the frequency scaler policy at shutdown. Save it. On boot performance should be selected until log in when the saved policy should be reinvoked.