power profiling ( /proc/acpi/processor .. missing)

pankaj singh psingh.ait at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 06:58:45 EDT 2011


Hi,

i have spent some time and did some google and got the answer.
Its seems there is some bug in Powertop. One could refer
http://osdir.com/ml/ubuntu-bugs/2011-08/msg41660.html.
Now its working with previous version..

Thanks,
~Pankaj Singh

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, pankaj singh <psingh.ait at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am trying to do power profiling of my laptop (DELL LATITUDE) where
> i am using ubuntu 11.10.
>  For this i m using powertop and acpitool but unfortunately i am not
> able to get C and P states.
>
>  when i run `acpitool -c` it says
>
>  Function Show_CPU_Info : could not read directory /proc/acpi/processor/
>  Make sure your kernel has ACPI processor support enabled.
>
>  I have already check the config file ACPI_PROCESSOR is enable(in kernel).
>  So do i require to install any specific driver to get C and P states.
>
>  For information i m using kernel version 3.0.0-12-generic.
>
> --
> Pankaj SIngh
> Phone No: 9921865080
>



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Pankaj SIngh
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