On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 17:21 +0200, Mitja Mihelic wrote: > Yes, it would seem I have forgotten to fill you in on the whole story. I > apologise. > What I meant was: > I am running FC5 (last updated a week ago) on an intel centrino based > notebook. > The applet version is 2.4.12. > I have read all the available help on the applet, but the applet itself > does not seem to work the way I expect it to. > I (left)click on it, selecet Governors, select performance. And nothing > happens. > When I slide the mouse pointer over the applet it displays, that the > userspace governor is the currently active one. > When I try to set the CPUspeed to something it does not always obey, but > when it does, it's only for a short time. > I simply can't get it do what I want. > > So my question is: Is this how it is supposed to (mis)behave or am I > missing some little detail. Is your BIOS also set to try and manage CPU power/performance? -- Brian Gaynor www.pmccorp.com FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz canis 08:33:22 up 5 min, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.60,
