ps. powernowd gives me back the behaviour i was looking for from the 'ondemand' setting, for anyone who wants to try that, last machine i used this fix on was a toshiba C650D laptop with ubuntu 10.04.
ps. powernowd gives me back the behaviour i was looking for from the 'ondemand' setting, for anyone who wants to try that, last machine i used this fix on was a toshiba C650D laptop with ubuntu 10.04.