On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Martin Kho <lists.kho at gmail.com> wrote: > Running cpufreq-info (as Patrick suggested) gives: > > --- > [martin at ps-1866 ~]$ cpufreq-info (no need to run as root) Interesting.. you can run that as a normal user, whereas on my machine I need to be root. Is your user in other groups other than yourself? As an aside, looks like the KDE issue is to do with hal being built without cpu-scaling support.. -c