Bug#273041: gnome-cpufreq-applet: fails to notice CPU speed change

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

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El mar, 28-09-2004 a las 00:44 +0300, Marius Gedminas escribi=C3=B3:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:13:24PM +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> > > There is another way of detecting the CPU speed:
> > >=20
> > >   $ cat /proc/sys/cpu/0/speed
> > >   665000
> >=20
> > Could you give me the content of all the files in /proc/sys/cpu/0/
> > please?
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> Sure:
>=20
>   $ cd /proc/sys/cpu/0
>   $ ls
>   speed  speed-max  speed-min
>   $ cat speed-max
>   864500
>   $ cat speed-min
>   665000
>   $ cat speed
>   665000
>=20
> cpufreq adds a documentation file that says the preferred interface is sy=
sfs,
> and /proc/sys/cpu interfaces are deprecated, but AFAIU they're the only o=
nes
> actually supported on 2.4 kernels.  Excerpt from the "old" documentation =
file
> (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/cpufreq-old):
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> 2. User Interface
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> CPUFreq uses a "sysctl" interface which is located in
>         /proc/sys/cpu/0/          on UP (uniprocessor) kernels, or
>         /proc/sys/cpu/any/        on SMP (symmetric multiprocessoring) ke=
rnels.
>=20
>=20
> In this directory, you will find three files of importance for
> CPUFreq: speed-max, speed-min, and speed:
>=20
> speed               shows the current CPU frequency in kHz,
> speed-min           the minimal supported CPU frequency, and
> speed-max           the maximal supported CPU frequency.
>=20
> Please note that you might have to specify these limits as a boot
> parameter depending on the architecture (see above).
>=20
>=20
> To change the CPU frequency, "echo" the desired CPU frequency (in kHz)
> to speed. For example, to set the CPU speed to the lowest/highest
> allowed frequency do:
>=20
> root@notebook:# cat /proc/sys/cpu/0/speed-min > /proc/sys/cpu/0/speed
> root@notebook:# cat /proc/sys/cpu/0/speed-max > /proc/sys/cpu/0/speed

Ok, it's now fixed in CVS, I'm going to do a release in the next days.

Thank you :-))

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> HTH,
> Marius Gedminas

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