When doing a trial install from the Mageia 2 alpha 2 DVD, I found the cpufreq package is not included on the DVD. This means that the CPU governors are set to "performance", which is obviously not a good choice for a notebook.
in the summary I see "An initscript to set CPU frequency settings", as we will systemd not sure it will help you (or the package sumarry is wrong :) )
It seems to work...even after a reboot.
ok thanks, I will open another one for the summary/description
Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1
@ tmb Is it correct that newer kernels have a cpufreq functionality built-in, so that this package isn't needed anymore?
CC: (none) => marja11, tmb
The cpufreq functionality is built into the kernel, but the default setting is "performance". IIUC, all the cpufreq package does is install the necessary startup files/scripts to allow a different default setting to be applied on boot up. When this package is installed, the default setting becomes "ondemand", which is much more sensible for a notebook (and indeed, is what I use on my desktop PC as well). I would like to see this package included in the base install, or alternatively the kernel configuration changed to make "ondemand" the default. This would lead to a better user experience for the non-technical users, who just want things to work straight out of the box.
kernel wont have "ondemand" as default as it's known to behave badly during install and also running livecds
With the beta 2 DVD, cpufreq is installed and activated automatically, so marking this bug as fixed.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED