[NTLUG:Discuss] BIOS

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:35:11PM -0600, Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> SuSE had updated the Powersaver daemon which allowed the (disable) removal
> of it from runlevel services without harming the USB devices (changed HAL
> and how it loaded modules ?). So in essence the Powersaver module was acting
> like it was a laptop and not a desktop thus throttling the CPU , why it did
> it through the BIOS and by voltage of the CPU is beyond me and why it even
> loaded the service to begin with ? (laptop entries were not selected when
> loading SuSE , Custom Install ).

FWIW, on my desktop's SuSE 10.0 install it also has "powersaved"
installed and running when it boots.  I suspect this is because
there are reasons why one might want to throttle the CPU besides
simply saving battery power -- acoustics being one reason.
(My new desktop system is super-quiet, but I would've definitely
wanted to change the power settings on my previous desktop because
it tended to run a little hot, and had some noisy fans and drives
in it.  :-)

Pm