On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:27:42PM +0200, Bin Zhang wrote: > On 5/8/06, Bernhard Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >cpufreq-set -g ondemand > >fails on linux-2.6.17-rc3 PowerBook5,6, config see below. > > > >dmesg has: > > ondemand governor failed to load due to too long transition latency > > > >same with conservative. > >Both modules are loaded as lsmod shows. > > > >I will probably try to change the .config to make ondemand > >or conservative the default, but this might be a bug nevertheless, > >thus I am reporting. > > > >Any hints? > > > Maybe this helps: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462417.html
Yes, it does.
"JoseJX" write there that ondemand and conservative cannot be used
on 7xx/74xx processors because of the time required to switch speeds.
Powernowd is recommended.
This explains it.
I guess the description or dependencies of those modules could be improved
so it is more clear that they are not useful to me.
Bernhard
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