Re: Question about not saving power

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

On Wednesday 24 December 2008 11:16:57 you wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 10:50 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > My question is: what are my options (like kernel parameters) to disable
> > power- saving features, other than running such CPU-eating process
> > continuously?
>
> You can set your performance governor to "performance".  If you're using
> KDE, in the lower right corner of your display is an icon for that.  I
> don't know what Gnome looks like.  Anyway, you can set it manually as
> well...
>
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors

I don't have the cpufreq driver loaded normally, so these files don't exist. 
And this is my home desktop, not the corporate laptop. After modprobing 
"cpufreq-acpi", the file does appear and contains "performance". The tone 
doesn't disappear, though.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov
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