On 0.8.0RC1, the master governor of cpufreq is "ondemand". I prefer the "conservative" governor on my laptop because it's "greener" and "quieter". And I know I'm not alone. "Conservative" governor saves more energy than "ondemand" without too much sacrifice the brute power of the processor(s), even on AC. And the fan noise is far less annoying! Actually, to solve the problem I need to patch the source... So it would be cool to leave the choice to the end user (maybe in the "Extended" tab of the preference pane?)
(In reply to comment #0) > On 0.8.0RC1, the master governor of cpufreq is "ondemand". > > I prefer the "conservative" governor on my laptop because it's "greener" and > "quieter". And I know I'm not alone. > > "Conservative" governor saves more energy than "ondemand" without too much > sacrifice the brute power of the processor(s), even on AC. And the fan noise is > far less annoying! > > Actually, to solve the problem I need to patch the source... > > So it would be cool to leave the choice to the end user (maybe in the > "Extended" tab of the preference pane?) Yes conservative is greener, but the CPU freq settings will be completly removed when we port xfpm to devkit-power, i will think of a clean solution to allow conservative governor instead of ondemand without modifying a lot the code, definitely i shouldn't have somehting like what was in version 0.6. I'll keep you in touch.
(In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > On 0.8.0RC1, the master governor of cpufreq is "ondemand". I'm sorry, this is not going to happen for a simple reason, first is requires quite a bit of modifications, seconds it is going to be removed anyway since device kit power will not support changing cpufreq governor. I'm using here ondemand for simple reason, ondemand is known to work on all the system, conservative might save a bit more power, but it can be problematic, for example my girl friend laptop heats up a lot if running with conservative governor. You could always disable the CPU freq on the power manager settings, then set it to conservative.
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