Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > 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.
Thanks Ben for pointing this out. Did not know it's enabled by default now. I just checked and can confirm that the ondemand governor and acpi-cpufreq driver are set even withouth "cpufrequtils". So this is probably much less needed than for squeeze. Tested on a Thinkpad X200. Gaudenz > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Always try to do things in chronological order; > it's less confusing that way. -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
