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]]>stefanwilkens wrote:since you're using gnome, try configuring policykit through:
System -> Preferences -> Authorisations
It will be under hal - power-management - Configure CPU frequency scalingIt won't work, because cpu frequency applet does not use org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement interface anymore. Instead it uses /org/gnome/cpufreq_selector/selector object implementing org.gnome.CPUFreqSelector which in turn is tied with polkit-1 authorization framework instead of old PolicyKit.
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]]>since you're using gnome, try configuring policykit through:
System -> Preferences -> Authorisations
It will be under hal - power-management - Configure CPU frequency scaling
It won't work, because cpu frequency applet does not use org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement interface anymore. Instead it uses /org/gnome/cpufreq_selector/selector object implementing org.gnome.CPUFreqSelector which in turn is tied with polkit-1 authorization framework instead of old PolicyKit.
]]>It will be under hal - power-management - Configure CPU frequency scaling
]]>Is there a possibility that gnome will save that password "forever" and won't ask me again for root pasword in the future ?
Not exactly, but ... create /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.gnome.cpufreqselector.pkla file containing
[org.gnome.cpufreqselector]
Identity=unix-user:lgolebio
Action=org.gnome.cpufreqselector
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
For more information see man pklocalauthority.
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