changing a laptop's speed (governor)

[Evan Leibovitch]

Colin McGregor wrote:
> On 6/3/09, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>>    My Thinkpad running Ubuntu 9.04 seems to almost always run at the
>> slowest CPU speed. Great for battery life, I guess, but when I am
>> plugged in I would much rather the performance.
>>
>>    Anyone have any pointers for telling a laptop to run in performance mode?
>>     
>
> Don't know how to change this under Ubuntu. I did have an old Toshiba
> laptop that would let me change the performance level easily in the
> BIOS and then that would stick when I ran Debian...
>   

I think this is CPU or model specific. There is a tool available for
Atom-based netbooks that allows them to change CPU mode (from
high-performance to energy saving). I also recall some thinkpad
utilities. But I don't think there's anything generic.

- Evan

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