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From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net>
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Subject: Re: powerd is doing nothing?
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Andrew Snow wrote:
> 
> The problem is not powerd but cpufreq.  While cpufreq appears to work 
> well on my Athlon X2, it has never worked on any of my Core2Duo or 
> Core-based Xeon servers.
> 
> This is a great shame as these newer Intel chips have the capability to 
> clock up and down very quickly and seamlessly.
> 
> Who can fix the cpufreq driver? I think it simply hasn't been updated 
> with the latest data from Intel.

Yes I can see that powerd is trying to change the frequency so agreed, cpufreq 
is broken.

When you say that it doesnt work, does it give an error or? In my case it doesnt 
give any errors just says it set it but I see that nothing is set.

Did you try acpi_ppc? http://www.spa.is.uec.ac.jp/~nfukuda/software/

Thanks,
Evren