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powernowd package

  1. Bug #223812
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Hanno Stock (hefe_bia) (hanno-stock) wrote : [hardy] Regression: powernowd no longer works with nforce2 cpufreq driver

Binary package hint: powernowd

Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
powernowd:
  Installiert:0.97-2ubuntu4

In gutsy I added cpufreq-nforce2 to my modules list and then powernowd nicely scaled the frequency on my Athlon XP 2400+. Now I upgraded to hardy and frequency scaling does no longer work.

However if I do the following, it works again (until next reboot):

sudo /etc/init.d/powernowd stop
sudo powernowd -q

If I do an 'sudo /etc/init.d/powernowd start' when powernowd is not running I get the following message in /var/log/messages:

"Apr 28 20:10:29 HANNO kernel: [10637.446135] ondemand governor failed, too long transition latency of HW, fallback to performance governor"

It seems that the init script loads the ondemand governor instead of userspace governor. How can I prevent this from happening?