Setting cpu frequency

On other distros I often use:

# cpufreq-set -f 1800000

Ta.

If you bothered to read the manual page for cpufreq-set (i.e. man cpufreq-set) you notice it says:

"-f --freq
specific frequency to be set. Requires userspace governor to be available and loaded."

and

"-g --governor
new cpufreq governor."

Thus, we first need to (as superuser)
cpufreq-set -g userspace
followed by your
cpufreq-set -f 1800000

You might also want to consider opening the lapper and blowing out any and all dust. This could be a rather formidable undertaking depending on the model.

But the problem I have is that there is no command cpufreq-set in the distro or repositories. cpufreq-set has worked onother distros I've used which is why I mentined it.

I did find cpufreqd which I've installed but I get this below:

root@trisquel:/home/trisquel# cpufreqd-set -g userspace
usage: cpufreqd-set [manual | dynamic | ]

And:

root@trisquel:/home/trisquel# cpufreqd-set -g manual
usage: cpufreqd-set [manual | dynamic | ]

Not sure where to go on this one.

The command is in package cpufrequtils, is that installed?

Also, if you often find yourself wondering from which uninstalled package a certain command comes from, you might want to install package command-not-found, it tells you. And if you'd like to know which installed package a command comes from you can find it out with dpkg -S packagename or faster by installing package dlocate which uses database to speed up the lookup.

Another tool you could try using is powertop. If it uses power, some (if not most) of it is converted into heat.

The tool even has a website http://linuxpowertop.org/ (works just fine on AMD as well despite the Intel spam...)