Bug#488499: cpufreq-applet: Outdated howtos about SUID ?

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 01 juin 2009 à 11:00 +0200, Raphael Bossek a écrit :
> http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/11/04/enabling-cpu-frequency-scaling/
> 
> Is this howto outdated ? reportbug find the debconf
> gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit configuration variable but
> dpkg-reconfigure -p high gnome-applets does not.

This setting is obsolete. The applet is now able to talk directly to the
CPU frequency selector with a PolicyKit helper.

And don’t forget that manual CPU frequency setting is a bad idea. It
will not save you power.

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