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Re: Which debian packages should be installed on a debian edu laptop?



El jue, 10-05-2007 a las 17:21 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen escribió: 
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > At the moment, these packages are installed on a laptop in Debian Edu.
> 
> Not quite so.  I was looking at an old version of the task file.  Here
> is the current list:
> 
>   acpi acpi-support acpid anacron apmd hibernate, hotkey-setup
>   laptop-mode-tools network-manager-kde pcmcia-cs uswsusp
>   wireless-tools xfree86-driver-synaptics
> 

wireless-tools, acpid, anacron and hibernate should be on any pc, not
only laptops.

> In addition, we suggest or ignore these packages:
> 
>   bluetooth bluez-cups bluez-pin bluez-utils cpufrequtils kdebluetooth
>   unison
> 
> > I suspect there are other packages we should be installing on
> > laptops for use in schools.  Anyone know any packages we should
> > include?
> 
> I still do.  Please give advice.

I would also install powernowd or cpudyn (I prefer powernowd). It saves
a lot of battery power, giving more time when unplugged . The problem
with it is that you have to load different modules depending on your cpu
to make it useful. cpufreq-userspace should always be loaded (for
powernowd) and another module depending on the cpu: speedstep-centrino
for most laptops without an amd core (a look to /lib/modules/`uname
-r`/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq would give hints). Nowadays,
more than 90% of the laptops I see work with speedstep-centrino

Hope this helps.
José L.

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