CPU Frequency Scaling Governor on Laptop - How ?

[Carthik Sharma]

Hi,

I use the "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 2.12.1" panel monitor on my laptop.

The above tool does not give me the ability to choose the CPU
frequency (the cpu frequency governor is not enabled).

On the Forums, I read that I have to do a
chmod a+s /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector

to get it to work.

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?


Thank you,
Carthik.
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Ph.D. Candidate
University of Central Florida
Homepage: http://carthik.net