Boot times,services and packages

Markus Hitter mah at jump-ing.de
Mon Oct 27 19:09:54 UTC 2008


Am 27.10.2008 um 18:13 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:

> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 +0530, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>        There are three services which on my system which just take
>> cycles other than doing anything. (or so I believe)
>>
>> a. nvidia-kernel (no nvidia card so useless)
>> b. bluetooth (no support for bluetooth in the motherboard, so  
>> useless again)
>> c. laptop-mode ( this is a desktop, although do have a UPS)
>
> I've asked about Bluetooth on a non-bluetooth mobo before, and it was
> pointed out that since you can have a Bluetooth USB dongle, getting  
> rid
> of the computer's ability to notice that you plugged one in might  
> not be
> a good thing.

As I can plug in such a dongle at any time, where's the urgent need  
to search for one at boot time?

The solution in the bluetooth arena would probably to initialize the  
mechanism, but to move the search for an actual device to the  
background.


MarKus

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