Comments on: Howto Change CPU Frequency Scaling in Ubuntu

By: Dassie

Dassie — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:29:19 +0000

I was wondering if there was a way to check/see the CPU speed of my (old) Athlon64 4000+ This works. Nice

By: tosho

tosho — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:33:36 +0000

I tried this on Ubuntu 10.10 and doesn’t work.
when I write “sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets” in the terminal nothing happens.

still “sensors” show high temperature of the CPU’s.
any tips how to lower the temp? so can the fan stop working all the f**ing time …
thanx

By: ntcleric

ntcleric — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:48:30 +0000

Is there a way to change the frequency from command line? What I’m trying to do is set my temperature monitor (also Gnome - same icon, they look like twin controls) to pop an alert and slow down the CPU so it’ll cool itself off (like when I’m not watching the screen).

By: kR105

kR105 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:30:17 +0000

It WORKS on Ubuntu 9.10, just we don’t need to use te “reconfigure” thing, only add the applet to the panel and you will be asked for the user password.. enter it and voilá you have stepping in Ubuntu

And to control 2 processors or more, just add two or more applets and configure each applet to each processor!

Regards!

By: Ugh

Ugh — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:59:08 +0000

“Left-click on your monitor and you should be able to choose the speed of your processor”

WHY DOESN’T THIS WORK ANYMORE IT USED TO

I HATE YOU UBUNTU

By: Clem

Clem — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:50:17 +0000

Nope I couldnt get cpufreq to sit still, and reconfigure gnome applets doesnt work in karmic as far as I can tell.

As Uchan says, kpowersave is a nice alternative.
cpu does what I tell it now cheers

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:21:19 +0000

Not working in karmic :O

By: Uchan

Uchan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:24:12 +0000

Usually I replacing gnome power manager with kpowersave. It have CPU scaling feature too.

By: Carl Stephenson

Carl Stephenson — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:25:01 +0000

Thanks for the info. Works great on my new system76 laptop. I just added 2 applets, one for each core.

By: miguel

miguel — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:14:18 +0000

Super but i have core 2 duo, and i cant monitor 2 cores at the same time, i have to add a nother one

By: henrique

henrique — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:38:35 +0000

I love this tweak!

By: pio

pio — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:33:20 +0000

I’m very impressed by you, you are real geek…

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:24:20 +0000

Genius.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:49:07 +0000

didnt work for me

By: Subaru

Subaru — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:29:26 +0000

Wow, that was alot easier than most other stuff. Cheers.

By: VCSkier

VCSkier — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:34:14 +0000

Thanks so much. This works perfectly, and is remarkably simpler than how-to’s posted elsewhere.

By: romen

romen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:36:18 +0000

how can i upgrade CPU Frequency

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:25:02 +0000

oh finally I was using emifreq-applet but it’s a little bit bugged
thanks