indicator-cpufreq – CPU frequency indicator (PPA installation instructions included)
Indicator applet for displaying and changing CPU frequency on-the-fly.
Install indicator-cpufreq in ubuntu 11.04/10.10
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:artfwo/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-cpufreq
Screenshot
E: Couldn’t find package indicator-cpufreq
In installed where do I find it?
PPA is installed
Software Center shows it as installed
—no menu item that I can find
did a reboot to check, still not found
You have to add it to panel… 😉
Right click the panel and select “Add to Panel”, select it from the list and press “Add”… 😉
Move it around using right-click and “Move”.
cool, done deal (:
After following the instructions, the terminal said:
E: Couldn’t find package indicator-cpufreq
but it seems to work anyway after adding it to the panel.
Ubuntu Geek – You are a genius – I love you!
My ppp-daemon kept dying after a few seconds of dialup apparently because of varying CPU frequency but now thanks to Carlos Garcia Campos I can set the speed (any speed except “On demand”) and my dialup works like a charm.
You have made my day!
I can’t find it anywhere in the add to panel lists. This is one of the most annoying things with Ubuntu installing something then never finding it on any menu.
PS sorry I found it but often I can’t find new programs anywhere and can’t browse to it like programs files on XP as Linux puts programs in several different folders
Is there a tool like this for memory usage? Very nice.
Thanks,… its work.
Sorry, what exactly do I do after I get to “E: Couldn’t find package indicator-cpufreq”? Would somebody please walk me through this?
Or direct me to the walk through
Thanks
never mind, i got it thanks
You can add 2 (or more, 1 per CPU) using ‘add to panel’ as above, and then select each individual CPU in the ‘preferences’
Well, under 12.10 it at least works running indicator-cpufreq in the terminal, after that it is in the autorun-group and should work every time you boot…
I got it installed and everything, but it just has two options: performance and powersave. I want to be able to actually control the amount of GHz being used myself, this thing doesn’t allow me to do that.
I’m on a HP pavilion 15 notebook (2015)
This tool works great on this laptop and is a replacement for the HP coolsense tool in windows. Tip: install TLP together with cpu-frequency-indicator. It saves battery power!
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y install tlp tlp-rdw tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms
sudo tlp start