> The vicious cpufreq widget uses
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq, which seems to
> be gone in 3.10, and the new cpuinfo_cur_freq is root:root 0400 :/

Concerning root:root 0400 ownership, the workaround I would suggest would be 
to install the 'sysfsutils' package and then to make entries in 
/etc/sysfs.conf to manually set file mode and ownership, such as:

--------------------
mode  devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq = 0440
mode  devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq = 0440
...
owner devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq = root:adm
owner devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq = root:adm
...
--------------------

Another confusing thing is that I'm using Debian's 3.10 kernel, but for some 
reason scaling_cur_freq and cpuinfo_cur_freq both exist on my system.  (Not 
sure why that is.)

   # uname -r
   3.10-1-amd64

   # ls -1  /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/
   affected_cpus
   bios_limit
   cpuinfo_cur_freq
   cpuinfo_max_freq
   cpuinfo_min_freq
   cpuinfo_transition_latency
   related_cpus
   scaling_available_frequencies
   scaling_available_governors
   scaling_cur_freq
   scaling_driver
   scaling_governor
   scaling_max_freq
   scaling_min_freq
   scaling_setspeed
   stats

  -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
chris.kna...@coredump.us


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