Cpuspeed daemon wont start

[Kitaran]

When I run serviceconf and try to start the cpuspeed daemon it says that it was started successfully, however the window still says it is stopped.

I'm not sure where to start looking to solve a problem like this and any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[djf_jeff]

Try

ps aux | grep cpuspeed

And if you see cpuspeed -d in the result, the service in started

[Kitaran]

Nope, its not listed. My /proc/cpuinfo says my processer is always running at max.

[Viro]

You need to edit /etc/cpuspeed.conf and make sure that your CPU driver is loaded. Also, you might need to uncomment the last 2 lines in the file.

Failing that, you might want to take a look at the powernowd daemon. It doesn't come with Fedora core 2, but its easy enough to install. I installed it instead of using cpuspeed because I found cpuspeed a pain to configure on my Athlon64 notebook.

[djf_jeff]

Viro has it right, you need to specify a driver in cpuspeed.cond, here is mine

VMAJOR=1
VMINOR=1
DRIVER="speedstep-centrino"
#DRIVER="powernow-k7"
#OPTS="-a /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/state -t /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature 75"

I have just change the driver...

You must also be sure that your cpu support scaling. It's not all CPU that do this

[Kitaran]

I have an intel pentium M 1.6ghz. It supports scaling and ACPI shows that it recognizes this. I uncommented the last two lines in my cpuspeed.conf, but i dont know if that is the correct driver for my processor. When i booted up WITH the last two lines commented my cpu ran at 600mhz, and never scaled up. With them uncommented my cpu runs at max, and never scales down

[djf_jeff]

If you have a centrino (yes, it's what you have!), just copy my cpuspeed.conf in your and you will be up!

I have the same thing as you (except it's 1.5ghz) and it scale between 600 and 1500 easily and rapidly.

I have add

acpi=on

in /etc/grub.conf at the kernel line. Here is my grub.conf :

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,1)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435.2.3)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.img

[Kitaran]

That is also in my grub.conf, the script to dynamically change it is not working aka cpuspeed

[djf_jeff]

Can you paste here the cpuspeed.conf and grub.conf please?

I think we misunderstand each other...

[Kitaran]

#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435.2.3)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.img




VMAJOR=1
VMINOR=1
DRIVER="powernow-k7"
OPTS="-a /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/state -t /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature 75"

[Kitaran]

[root@localhost sbin]# ./cpuspeed -d
Error: Could not open file for writing: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor


I get that error when i try to run /usr/sbin/cpuspeed -d

[djf_jeff]

Ok, so, copy this text in /etc/cpuspeed.conf overwritting all the you have :

VMAJOR=1
VMINOR=1
DRIVER="speedstep-centrino"
#DRIVER="powernow-k7"
#OPTS="-a /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/state -t /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature 75"

After that do : service cpuspeed restart

The problem is that you have the powernow driver, that is made for AMD processor...

[Kitaran]

Thanks, getting closer, however it says FATAL: Module speedstep_centrino not found.

I'm using the FC2 Kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3, I havent touched it besides to install the ipw2100 packages.

[micha]

Originally Posted by Kitaran

Thanks, getting closer, however it says FATAL: Module speedstep_centrino not found.

Try

DRIVER="centrino"

It works great with my Pentium M 1.7GHz.

[Kitaran]

It says FATAL: Module centrino not found What is going on?! hehe