[ltp] Re: Best ways of maximizing battery life on a T30 under Linux?

[Greg Macek]

Ah, well that would explain that issue. :) So should this cpudyn program
work for my 2.4 series kernel, assuming I can get the package from
somewhere? 

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 21:00, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Greg Macek wrote:
> > Ok, here's the problem I'm running into (SuSE 8.2):
> > 
> > Starting speedfreqd daemon: /usr/local/sbin/speedfreqd: cannot find
> > cpufreq under /sys
> >         Need sysfs mounted on /sys, and kernel configured with cpufreq
> > driver
> > 
> > First off, I had to change the init.d scripts because it defaulted to
> > RedHat-type standards. (/etc/rc.d/init.d vs. /etc/init.d). Then I
> > received the error message above. SuSE seems to have the cpufreq stuff
> > already as part of their kernel. Maybe it's not right? Also, I didn't
> > have the /sys directory nor the sysfs filesystem mounted.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Ah. The 'speedfreq' package needs the 'sysfs' based support from the
> 2.5/2.6 series of kernels to work, I believe.
> 
> If you don't have a kernel in that series, you may be able to hack it to
> talk to the procfs interface, but I never used that myself, so I don't
> know.
> 
>         Daniel
> 
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