CPU frequency options in KDE Power Management (PowerDevil)

[Lorenzo Bettini]

On 11/30/2010 03:31 PM, Duncan wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini posted on Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:45:16 +0100 as excerpted:
>
>> my laptop CPUs can support CPU frequency scaling (tested in the past); I
>> also installed cpufrequtils; but in PowerDevil (the Power Management
>> dialog of KDE) CPU frequency scaling options are not shown... only
>> "Enable system power saving" in the "CPU and System" dialog (of edit
>> profiles).
>>
>> Is it a known issue?
>
> FWIW, my netbook uses laptop-mode-tools to handle things pretty much
> automatically, and when I do touch it manually, it's thru the command-line
> tools, not kde, so I don't use powerdevil, etc, here and can't directly
> answer your question.  That said...
>
> Please repost the question with at least /some/ information about what
> distribution release and kde version you're using.  There's nary a version
> of ANYTHING AT ALL listed in your post! =:^(  Versions for the kernel and
> cpufrequtils you may be using could be useful as well, if they aren't the
> distribution defaults and/or for those who use other distributions that
> might or might not be affected.
>
> Without that, as the kernel folks would say,
> -ENODATA (error, no data available).
>

as said in gmane.comp.kde.linux, it looks like accessing frequency 
scaling from powerdevil was removed...

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