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Dose anyone know how to disable CPU Frequency Scaling under the newest Ubuntu? My laptop pauses every time the CPU is scaled, pauses meaning that the mouse stops for a second and if your playing music, that stops as well, but just for a second. I know this saves power but, its stoping me from doing work.

I have a Dell Latitude C600; Kernel: 2.6.12.

Thanks for any help.

-bash_dude,

well you need to get the kernel source files and extract them to /usr/src/linux. then 'cd /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig' and a menu should pop up with all of the kernel options. Go to "Power Management Options" > "CPU Frequency Scaling" and hit space bar to disable it. then you need to recompile it doing something like "make && make modules_install" and copying the boot image over. "cp /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-custom" and make sure grub or lilo knows the location of the new kernel. Keep in mind you might loose some custom modules if you installed any.

Ah..thank you! I will try this out, um... stupid question but, where can I get the Kernel src from ubuntu package system? When I do an apt-get kernel-src I don't get anything. And a bit off topic, but whats the best wireless card (for a PCMCIA slot) for a linux system?

Thanks agian.

-bash_dude.