Powersave or Powerdevil?

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Hi!

Could anyone tell me the difference between using Powerdevil or Powersave on a regular desktop computer. The System Settings/Power Management module gives me an error message saying that it cannot be started since another power manager is running. I attempted to delete powersave and powersave-libs, but zypper then also wanted to remove smartmontools. Will Powerdevil keep track of my harddrive the way powersave with smartmontools does? Should I use Powerdevil, delete it? Any benefit from using it on a desktop computer? What are you’re thoughts and recommendations?

Thanks!
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Oh, BTW I’m on Opensuse 11.0/KDE4.1.3

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powerdevil is the default power manager for KDE4.

powersave also has a daemon that runs. Goto yast->system->run levels (I don’t remember exact name, not at linux box right now). Scroll through and disable powersaved. This will allow powerdevil to work without uninstalling anything.

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Thank you!

It worked perfectly!