Michel Daggelinckx wrote: >/ Jerry Geis wrote: />/ />>/ I have a desktop unit with a sempron 2500+ to play with. />>/ doing "more /proc/cpuinfo" indicates cpu Mhz as1044 not the 2500 />>/ />>/ I am familiar with cpuspeed. doing ps ax | grep cpuspeed resulting in />>/ nothing. />>/ I did service cpuspeed start. No errors reported. />>/ ps ax | grep cpuspeed resulted in nothing. / >Sounds like cpuspeed could be crashing. Make sure there is no cpuspeed >running as daemon then try running it as root with no args. Check >/var/log/messages if it blows chunks. Cpuspeed is crashing. when I run it from the command line it says: could not open file for writing "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" the cpufreq directorty is not present.... I tried to use mkdir and create it as root but it says "operation not permitted". Jerry