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windsheep

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Registered: 2011-06-29

Posts: 17

CPU frequency scaling on Gnome3

Hi!

I was wondering whether there's a convenient/graphical way to manually apply CPU frequency scaling with some sort of Gnome3 applet/shell ext.
- Thing is that there's already a gnome-shell ext that provides the GUI, but having 8 CPU cores renders this sort of less useful. Trayfreq (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trayfreq) could do a good job, but doesn't seem to remain clickable in Gnome 3 for now.

My rc.conf:

MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave acpi_call ...)

I'm not sure why, but I end up remaining at 800 Mhz at my machine no matter what.

Best,
wishi

defears

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Registered: 2010-07-26

Posts: 218

Re: CPU frequency scaling on Gnome3

The gnome-shell extension works fine. Use dconf-editor to only have the bars present to make it smaller, and the cpufreq wiki section "privilege granting under gnome", to change manually. To change all cores at once, click the left bar.