On Donnerstag 15 April 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i used to be able to start the cpufreqd service. but recently, it > fails to start. and the error message is: > " > * Caching service dependencies ... > [ ok ] > * cpufreqd requires the kernel to be configured with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ > * Make sure that the appropiate kernel drivers for your CPU are > * built-in or loaded. > * ERROR: cpufreqd failed to start > " > > i ran zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i cpu_freq, the return is: > " > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=m > # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set > # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT is not set > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
well, no matter what you do - cpufreqd could not set the frequencies becuase performance is default. But despair not: cpufreqd is very much not needed. Forget its existance and use ondemand as governor. Problem solved. Or are you using some arcane cpu that does not scale with ondemand?
