Managing CPU throttling

[kaput]

I was very impressed to see that Ubuntu supports dynamic CPU throttling
"out of the box" on my P4 Toshiba notebook. 

However, I would like to be able to have a little more control over
throttling. For example, when running Tribes 2, the engine recognizes
that the CPU is running at 1200 mhz. The problem is after the engine is
started, the CPU jumps to 2200, which causes the engine to start running
too fast.

I know that gnome-cpufreq-applet supports changing frequencies, but the
applet must be run as root (and I'm not even sure if support for this is
included in the Ubuntu binary). Supposedly, the author is about to
releasing a version that runs as user, but prompts for the user
password.

I don't seem to see a CPUfreq or speedfreq client in Synaptic.

Anyway, does someone know of a better way to manage the throttiling in
Ubuntu?


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kaput