Those panel things could work, sometimes you need to set up policy rules or to set an evil bit ;), aka suid.
I use the command line, resp. scripts, without tools, so I don't need to care for distro specific commands: $ grep performance /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor:performance /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor:performance $ echo -n ondemand | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor >/dev/null $ grep -v performance /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor:ondemand /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor:ondemand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1389358638.5017.241.camel@archlinux