Public bug reported: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/30100
Affects: gnome-applets (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed Description: Following a hint that someone posted on https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29709, I uninstalled powernowd to take full control over CPU frequency with the CPU Frequency Applet. After rebooting the computer, a message popped up saying that my hardware didn't support frequency scaling. I know that the Centrino processor supports this feature so after a few trials, I installed the powernowd package again, started the daemon and restarted the applet. Then I was allowed to change the CPU frequency. So after removing the init symlinks for the powernowd daemon, I rebooted the computer and after logging in I got the same message and no menu appeared in the CPU Freq. applet. I removed the applet, started the powernowd daemon and added the applet again. I was then able to change CPU frequency. What I understand of this is that the CPU Frequency Applet depends on the powernowd being started before the applet or else it won't work. Since the powernowd is used to throttle the CPU depending on it's usage and I don't want that, the applet has a bug that prevents it's usage if I (the user) choose not to use the powernowd and prefer to throttle the CPU manually. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs