I've got HP compaq nx9005 laptop with Athlon XP Mobile 2500+ and cpu scalling works great for me - laptop never overheats and I see that fan is running a lot less than in Windows XP (with which the laptop was preinstalled) or Mandriva and performance in Kubuntu Edgy Eft is better, too.
-- laptop overheats when performing CPU intensive tasks. https://launchpad.net/bugs/22336 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs