On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 22:42 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> writes: > > > Quoting cl (topolm5...@mail.ru): > >> Package: installation-reports > >> Severity: normal > >> > >> Dear Maintainer, > >> > >> I have downloaded debian-wheezy-live-rc1-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso and > >> installed. > >> After the installation I was wondering why my cpu fan was constantly > >> spinning and I found out the CPUfrequencyScaling is not enabled due to > >> that the cpufrequtils package is not installed. After manually installing > >> and configuring cpufrequency everything is fine. As a lot of users are > >> working on laptops it will be really great if cpufrequency could be > >> enabled by default. Thank you. > > > > Sigh, there are so many different power management things that > > choosing among them is a nightmare. > > > > Did cpufrequtils need configuration to do what you want? If so, then > > it would probably better having it to provide a good default > > configuration, then we might consider adding it to the "laptop" task > > in addition to: > > No cpufrequtils does not need any configuration. It works well out of > the box. And it's not only usefull on laptops but on any hardware with a > modern (x86/amd64) processor. It also helps saving power on desktops and > servers.
cpufreq drivers are now auto-loaded and te default governor is ondemand, so most users won't need cpufrequtils installed any more. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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