panel-plugin xfce4-cpufreq-plugin crashes

[NOB]

Hi

I am using XFce on an old AMD Turion laptop and the battery is broken.
And, of course, the CPU is slowed down by this fact to 800 Mhz instead
of the possible 2 GHz

So I thought, why not install the xfce4-cpufreq-plugin to be able to change
it to 2 GHz.

But unfortunately, the plugin immediately crashes on activation all the time.
Looking at the Changelog the last update was done to comply with XFce 4.8.
This might be different from 4.10.
I used Synaptic to download and install the plugin.

Now: Is it the old laptop, the CPU or just a broken plugin ?

I tried to compile it, but get the error message "gthread-2.0 is missing"
and I was not able to find one.

Does someone use this plugin succesfully on any hardware, at all ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Norbert.

[NOB]

Hi

I read somewhere else that if you have problems with the panel plugins
you should enable the PPA repository for xubuntu-dev.
After enabling this repository, reloading the package lists and installing the latest version which
at the time of writing is 1.0.0-4+ppa1 this panel-plugin works.

However, setting the CPU frequency or the policy (governor) to anything else except 800 MHz and
ondemand resp. didn't work.

Cheers

Norbert.