2/10/2006
Follow Up to the CPUFreq Issue
Well after a couple of warm responses to my first post, Why The Linux Desktop Sucks, such as brix suggesting I be suppressed off the Planet and halcy0n saying I was just whining and not providing constructive criticism, which I’ll agree with, I’m going to follow it up.
First I want to thank Daniel Drake (dsd) for his ideas and suggestions. He got me to try out linux-2.6.16-rc2-git8, which by the time I’m writing this is replaced by git9, but I found that CPUFreq worked properly in that kernel. I was going to do the git split process and figure out what patch it was but Daniel hoped to it and came up with a patch. I applied it to my gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r4 kernel and sure enough CPUFreq started working again for me. I’m happy abou that.
I also want to thank Paul de Vrieze (pauldv) for some suggestions he e-mailed me and something he found wrong in my logs (I’ve since updated them with versions that match the configs). I’m going to be looking more into the stuff he suggested, like DRI issues, composite issues and Framebuffer usage.
I’d also like to thank all the readers who had constructive comments about suggestions with different governors, disabling composite, and tweaking ondemand to ignore nice settings. For anyone looking for ways to tweak and tinker with the “ondemand” governor read the comments to the previous post. They’re pretty good.
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February 10th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Maybe that patch can go into gentoo-sources 2.6.15-r5…