permission
Debian Raw1394 Permission Requirements to Access Device
Jul 10th
A simple file permission nag. On Ubuntu this permission is automatically set, but on my recent Lenny install I had to set the permission of the device manually to enable firewire support in MythTV. The 1394 drivers are all automatically installed conveniently, other than this permissions fix there were no other driver or hardware configuration requirements. sudo chown mythtv:mythtv /dev/raw1394
Gnome Panel frequency Scaling Applet
Aug 29th
By default the Gnome frequency scaling applet does not vary the frequency of the CPU. If your computer supports frequency scaling then the gnome panel applet can server quite useful. The only requirement is to reconfigure the applet to operate with root permissions: sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets