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gnome-applets package

CPU frequency selector menu is not available in preferences dialog; missing kernel support?

Bug #104407 reported by UJones on 2007-04-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #23768: /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector should have different access permissions. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-applets (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

In CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet:
When opening the preferences dialog I'm common to activate the frequency selctor, e.g. to save battery capacity by switching down to 800MHz when using my laptop's battery.
But by default the menu point is missing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 8 12:54:20 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 2.18.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/johannes
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux mobile 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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UJones (johannes-eckert) wrote on 2007-04-08:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (35.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (671 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-04-08:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Rejected

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Robert Dzikowski (rdzikowski-gmail) wrote on 2007-10-20:

This bug is present in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) too. CPU Frequency Scaling works by using cpufreq-selector command. System starts in a "dynamic" mode - CPU frequency is 50% unless needed more, but nowhere this information is shown. I think this is a bug too - user should know in what mode CPU works.

It is new installation of Ubuntu 7.10 i386 on Dell Inspiron 6400 with Intel Core 2 Duo.
uname: Linux ubuntu-pc 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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era (era) wrote on 2007-10-25:

If I understand the situation correctly, there are actually two bugs here:

1. CPU frequency selection requires root or suid privileges (this is bug #23768)

2. The documentation fails to mention that the menu will not be available in this situation.

Should there be an independent bug report for the second issue, or could the current bug be split away from #23768, which it is currently marked as a duplicate of?