How to fix laptop frequency governor on resume after suspend

Published at February 11, 2012 ·  2 min read

This is a lost post from my early blogs around 2012, rediscovered and posted here in mid-2020 If you are using Linux and the pm-utils suite from freedesktop.org to manage resume/suspend, and the chances are you are since most distros use it, then you could benefit from reading a recent post on my other blog [1]. Pm-utils’ implementation on CPU governor and CPU frequency is broken. If you use the userspace governor with a custom frequency, the frequency does not get restored on resume....