Boot times,services and packages

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 19:11:21 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:09 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> 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.

Isn't that what it does? It just starts up the service that watches for
a dongle.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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