Hi,
I rebooted my PC the other day, and only then I know that my CPU is overheated, because I saw a BIOS warning. The fact that my CPU might have been overheated for months made me consider seriously to control my CPU frequency (My AMD cpu has that feature available in bios).
I've tried to make use powernowd before, but never able to. I should feel lucky this time since the latest kernel that grml 1.0-1 uses, support cpu frequency control by default:
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_20 "Grand unification of ACPI based speedstep-centrino and acpi-cpufreq drivers. It combines functionality of these two driver into acpi-cpufreq driver."
But the problem is that googling "acpi-cpufreq" didn't come up much result. The closest is from http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=256607
"... you should try the 'acpi-cpufreq' module. My favorite governor is the 'conservative' one. Under load, it will ramp up the frequency, but it will generally keep it as low as possible."
But there is no details. So I'm wondering if anyone can help me here?
thanks a lot!