[SOLVED]No "Ondemand" governor on Intel Celeron N3060

[VentGrey]

The tilte is pretty much self-explainatory, I tried "messing" with cpu scaling and I saw a curious governor "ondemand" which basically Dynamically increases / decreases CPU clock speed based on system load. Problem is when I try to see which governors I have available on my system the output is rather...disappointing:

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 available cpufreq governors: performance, powersave

I tried googling for a solution first I came across this forum https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=40539 and I saw some red words that somehow caught my attention:

The Intel Celeron does not support speedstep.

So I googled my processor model to see if it was in fact true...BUT! according to Intel my processor DOES support speedstep.

https://ark.intel.com/en/products/91832 ... o-2_48-GHz

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology -----Yes

If it helps this is the

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cpufreq-info

output:

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Vent@BunnyDebian:~$ cpufreq-info 
cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: intel_pstate
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  maximum transition latency: 0.97 ms.
  hardware limits: 480 MHz - 2.48 GHz
  available cpufreq governors: performance, powersave
  current policy: frequency should be within 480 MHz and 2.48 GHz.
                  The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.64 GHz.
analyzing CPU 1:
  driver: intel_pstate
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 1
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 1
  maximum transition latency: 0.97 ms.
  hardware limits: 480 MHz - 2.48 GHz
  available cpufreq governors: performance, powersave
  current policy: frequency should be within 480 MHz and 2.48 GHz.
                  The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.80 GHz.

It may be a missing package, something I haven't understood yet, I know I'm doing something wrong I just can't point my finger to it,

[stevepusser]

No doubt this is due to the kernel you are using using the p-state power management for your fairly recent Intel processor. What you see is normal when it's using p-state.

If you want to use the cpufreq power management you're thinking of, you can add

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intel_pstate=disable  

to the kernel boot commands, and it should fall back to cpufreq. I really can't see much, if any, difference in power use between the two on my Skylake processor when I've tried the switch, though.

[VentGrey]

Just added the line as a boot parameter and now I can enjoy the ondemand governor.
Well it seems that the trick worked pretty much, thanks for replying

[stevepusser]

This little system tray applet works well on my system:

http://iso.mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/pool/ ... r-cpufreq/