Comment 2 for bug 510229

The problem appears to be that /etc/init.d/ondemand changes the scaling governor to ondemand after powerdevil has started up. sudo rm /etc/rc?.d/S05ondemand prevents this from running. This is not a perfect fix though, since it means that the governor is left at performance when not logged in.

To fix this properly, the initscripts should somehow detect that powerdevil is running and not attempt to change the scaling governor after powerdevil has started.