Hi everyone, I've poked around with the source for the gnome-applets and powernowd packages and I think I managed to find out why the CPUFreq applet doesn't work without the powernowd being executed during the laptop startup: the powernowd init script loads the modules needed to enable frequency scaling (now I understand I didn't really need the source packages :-) ).
So I've made a copy of the powernowd's init script and kept only the parts that detect if the CPU supports frequency scaling and that loads the needed modules. I've tested it and after running the script the applet no longer complaints that the hardware doesn't support frequency scaling and I'm able to pick a frequency and make it stick. I'm attaching the script to this email. The thing I'm interested in knowing is, if it is possible to include this (or something similar) on the distribution so that using the CPU-Frequency applet works out of the box without needing to manually tweak the system like changing the /etc/modules file. Cheers, Celso [1] https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/30100 https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29709
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