What is the danger of messing with cpufreq? Alan
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Sudhir Khanger <sud...@sudhirkhanger.com>wrote: > > On May 8, 2014 9:27 PM, "Alan E. Davis" <lngn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I had a good experience, almost perfect, with Fedora some months ago, > staring with the Beta of F20. Since then I've tried several Linux distros, > each of them as usual, with some issue to separate itself from the rest. I > have a new Lenovo Yoga ultrabook and want to ruin LInux on. I have been > through 3 or 4. So I thought, "Let's try Fedora again." > > > > The install went well on this UEFI system, installing the other linux > distros on other partitions, as well as the Windows Boot Loader, on the > Grub menu. I am happy, Fedora is awesome. > > > > With the exception of a couple of wrinkles. > > > > First, I cannot seem to install Jupiter or any other useful cpufrequency > tool. And with Fedora, I only see two governor options: performance, and > powersave. This is extremely frustrating. This laptop is running an Intel > i7 Mobile processor that touts a high CPU freq, but this is only in a > "turbo" mode. Other distros have picked up at least four, on this same > machine. What are the limitations I am facing here? Kernel, modules, or > the inavailability of certain packages, like Jupiter, which I am starting > to like quite a lot? > > > > As a more general remark, Fedora 20 seems to have left a number of other > packages behind as well. > > > > I ran into a brick wall as far as documentation on this issue, the issue > about cpu frequency. > > > > I have now resorted to Desktop Manager roulette to try to find one that > supports this. The E17, for example, cpufreq tool, which works fine > elsewhere, does not function. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Alan Davis > > > > > > > > > > -- > > users mailing list > > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > > > > From what I heard Jupiter isn't being developed actively anymore. Most of > the things it touted to fix have been incorporated upstream. The only > laptop battery saver tools, supposedly, I use are TLP and Thermal Daemon. > And you shouldn't be messing up with tools like cpufreq unless you know > what you are doing. > > - > Sudhir Khanger. > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >
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