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powernowd package

  1. Intrepid (8.10)
  2. Bug #262567
  3. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 262567

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 262567] Re: Scaling governor set to 'performance' on boot, rather than 'ondemand'

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:06:42AM -0000, TheBigT wrote:
> I'm having the same problem. The aforementioned setting is checked for
> me, but I don't see powernowd in the process list, and the governor is
> set to Performance by default.

Powernowd is not expected to be in the process list. For historical
reasons, the scaling governor is set by the powernowd package, even though
the daemon itself isn't actually needed.

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 - mdz