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Make effective the changes in CPU governor plugin

I'm using Debian Testing + Xfce. I added to my panel the plugin the handle the CPU governor. My problem is that the setting that I do on the plugin interface are not made effective. Maybe because I'm ...
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i686 versus i486 kernel on an Intel Core i3

I had installed Debian 6 Squeeze on my laptop a couple of weeks ago. Coming from Ubuntu, I did this by downloading the hybrid i386 image and booting it off a USB drive. Now on GRUB, I'm presented ...
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How to maximize the use of computer performance Core i7 [closed]

How to maximize the use of computer performance Core i7 960 / 12GB Ram?. My operating system is Debian 6 (Linux kernel - 3.0.0-1-amd64). I think it does not work very quickly. Looking for some ways to ...
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CPU locked at lowest frequency, cpufreqd says it won't manage it?

I have a Dell Latitude D600 running CrunchBang Statler (Debian Squeeze-based) with a 1.4GHz Pentium M. I noticed in Conky that my CPU freq is stuck at 600MHz, even when doing CPU-intensive things like ...
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How can I chase a program who is rising up my laptop's temperature?

After 40 days of non-upgrading I came back from a trip and I decided to dist-upgrade my Debian Sid box. Everything went fine but after rebooting I noticed that the temperature was 15°C over its ...