AVL-MXE 21.2.1: CPU Governor Utility not working [Solved]

[seriousness]

Hello,

first of all: thanks to Glen for this marvelous new release!

My CPU runs rather hot with governor set to "performance", so I want to use "ondemand" for normal work and switch to "performance" on the fly for audio work.

This could be done easily with "CPU Governor Utility", but it doesn't work. I think this is because CPUfreq does not ask for sudo password, which is needed by cpufreq-set.

I'm not very experienced in scripting and zenity - how could this be fixed?

[Aceediq]

have you read the User manual? I think there is a section for the cpu governor...

[Steve]

Yup page 18
The CPU Governor Utility found in the ‘Settings’ Menu is a simple script to change the running CPU Governor, typically for Audio and Video work you will want the ‘Performance’ governor enabled and for that reason AVL-MXE comes with the Performance governor enabled by default. At other times you may want to save battery power or keep your CPU heat down with the ‘ondemand’ or ‘powersave’ governors. An important one-time thing that needs to be done before using the CPU Governor is for ‘cpufreq-set’ permissions to be set so that the User can change the settings. This needs setting in a Terminal with the following command:
sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/cpufreq

[seriousness]

RTFM...