CPU Frequency Scaling Governor on Laptop - How ?

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Fri Nov 4 20:03:41 UTC 2005


On vr, 2005-11-04 at 10:12 -0500, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> 
> I am wondering though if this is the right way to go about this.
> 
> Is there a conf file somewhere I should know about and edit to enable
> me to change the frequency scaling using the above-mentioned monitor?
> 
> Why is the use of the Frequency governor (by the monitor) disabled by
> default on Ubuntu systems? Is there a gotcha here that I don't see?

It's against Ubuntu policy to have setuid binaries by default, but a
dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets can enable it.

I do not like both situations, so I created a package that implements my
idea specified at that report. You can use this if you want.
-- 
Dennis K.
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