Bug#328411: CPU frequency scaling not installed by default for laptops

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

severity 328411 wishlist
thanks

On Thursday 15 September 2005 08:02, Kristian Hermansen wrote:
> By default, for laptops, Debian should install a package to allow CPU
> frequency scaling. This was annoying on my laptop because after I
> installed Debian, my CPU ran at 100% (2.2 GHz) and made the whole thing
> very hot on my lap. Please consider installing this by default in
> future versions so that Debian users' scrotums are not set on fire
> while using the laptop.

I suspect that what you were missing is not so much frequency scaling, but 
plain acpi support (package acpi and acpid) after the installation.
In the daily builds of the installer (post-Sarge versions), these packages 
installed automatically for systems that have acpi support.

Supporting frequency scaling out of the box would be a nice option, but is 
probably less essential.

Cheers,
FJP