The problem is not with the Gnome frequency scaling applet. I used the
cpufreq-selector command and it doesn't change the frequency either. I
managed to get some reaction yet, by switching the ACPI daemon and
related on and off quickly. Then, sometimes, for a few seconds, the
frequency will
I may have done a mistake somewhere but following the standard procedure
to compile a custom kernel and dutifully copying
/boot/config-2.6.28-11-generic to /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.28/.config I
get qconf telling me that the kernel frequency has been locked to the
maximum frequency and cannot be
Well that was indeed the problem. Once the custom kernel was running,
with the CPU frequency throttling simply and basically turned on, there
was no more problem. The low frequency and power saving governors ran
perfectly.
On the other hand I had no more Wi-Fi. 'Going to try to solve that one
