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xfce4-cpu-freq-plugin package

xfce4-cpufreq-plugin governor not working Acer Aspire 5750-9668

Bug #977942 reported by penalvch on 2012-04-10

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xfce4-cpu-freq-plugin (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

2) apt-cache policy xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin:
  Installed: 1.0.0-4
  Candidate: 1.0.0-4
  Version table:
*** 1.0.0-4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen is secondary click a panel -> Add New Items... -> CPU Frequency Monitor -> Add -> click the created icon -> CPU0 Available Frequencies 800 MHz -> Available Governors Userspace and the governor holds the frequency at 800 MHz.

4) What happens instead is the frequency changes as if not governored at all, and the Available Governor remains ondemand.

WORKAROUND: sudo cpufreq-selector --cpu=0 --governor=powersave && sudo cpufreq-selector --cpu=1 --governor=powersave && sudo cpufreq-selector --cpu=2 --governor=powersave && sudo cpufreq-selector --cpu=3 --governor=powersave && sudo cpufreq-selector --cpu=4 --governor=powersave && sudo cpufreq-selector --cpu=5 --governor=powersave && sudo cpufreq-selector --cpu=6 --governor=powersave && sudo cpufreq-selector --cpu=7 --governor=powersave

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xfce4-cpufreq-plugin 1.0.0-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 10 07:03:20 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-06 (3 days ago)
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ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 30b6638832e19720cfe8f7a91e5798a4
CheckboxSystem: 2954e74ba17fb0e37fc942cd1d9fab4e
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-11 (405 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120131.1)
MarkForUpload: True
Package: xfce4-cpufreq-plugin 1.0.0-4build2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
Tags: raring
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-19 (63 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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