Bug#702527: installation-reports: No CpuFrequencyScaling with Wheezy RC1
Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> writes:
> Quoting cl (topolm5678@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.
Gaudenz
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