On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:31 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:29 +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: > > JB> cpuspeed is very useful, especially in the case of a laptop which > > JB> several people use as their desktop. Your narrow definition of a > > JB> desktop is perhaps too limiting. > > > > cpuspeed really isn't optional on modern desktop machines either. > > Rahul Sundaram may have lots of machines with fixed clockspeeds, but > > that is no reason to not support newer stuff. > > GNOME Power Manager can control CPU speed with policy set in the > session, usually saving power more aggressively than cpuspeed. It also > has the benefit of using a HAL addon rather than a system service, which > is only loaded if the machine is frequency scale supported. > > So really, I think the system daemon can be stopped by default, and > leave it there if some admin wants to install it on a big server. For the discussion purposes of the LiveCD, which will be Gnome based, that is technically possible. In general though, unless KDE, XFCE, < $ramdom foo> has the same thing, g-p-m doesn't help at all. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
