diff --git a/bin/cpu-freq b/bin/cpu-freq
index e5baed1c..bd4311bf 100755
--- a/bin/cpu-freq
+++ b/bin/cpu-freq
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-mhz=`grep -m 1 "^cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F"[:.]" '{print $2}'` || mhz=`grep -m 1 "^clock" /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F"[:.]" '{print $2}'`
+mhz=`egrep -m 1 "^cpu MHz|^clock" /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F"[:.]" '{print $2}'`
 
 if [ $mhz -ge 1000 ]; then
 	speed=$(echo $mhz | awk '{ printf "%.1f", $1 / 1000 }')
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ce8c9278..d00b31b6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 screen-profiles (1.45) unreleased; urgency=low
 
-  * UNRELEASED
+  * bin/cpu-freq: fix for powerpc
 
- -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:07:16 -0700
+ -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:05:35 -0700
 
 screen-profiles (1.44-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low