[NTLUG:Discuss] BIOS

[Gilbert Morrow]

The little Shuttles run quite or at least mine and my wifes do .
That is what I thought about the powersaver or powersaved , because I know I
did not select it when I installed SuSE .

On 1/24/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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