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#1 2010-06-17 03:17:48

dfetter88
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[Solved] Are laptop-mode-tools & cpufreq-utils redundant?

I was looking through my /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/* files to configure laptop-mode-tools when I noticed a "cpufreq.conf"

Does laptop-mode-tools utilize cpufreq-utils, or does it have redundant functionality? If I am using laptop-mode-tools, should I have cpufreq-utils installed on my system?

Last edited by dfetter88 (2010-06-17 04:30:42)

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#2 2010-06-17 03:41:59

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Re: [Solved] Are laptop-mode-tools & cpufreq-utils redundant?

Just use cpufrequtils and configure your profile.


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#3 2010-06-17 03:49:05

dfetter88
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Re: [Solved] Are laptop-mode-tools & cpufreq-utils redundant?

I could do that... but if i can get away with only running one of the daemons (laptop-mode-tools) I'd prefer to do so. Maybe I could rephrase the question. Does the cpufrequtils package add functionality to scale the clock, or is it essentially a script?

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#4 2010-06-17 04:30:28

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Re: [Solved] Are laptop-mode-tools & cpufreq-utils redundant?

Nevermind... I didn't read the config file carefully enough. It seems that laptop-mode-tools does not actually scale the CPU clock... it just adjusts the kernels CPU frequency settings (such as upper and lower limits etc).

Sorry about the confusion.

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