radeontool.... why?

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Sun Mar 22 08:43:04 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 00:26 -0600, Oscar wrote:
> I was looking for unnecesary packages installed at my laptop and I
> found a package called radeontool and its  description says:

rpm -q --whatrequires radeontool
pm-utils-1.2.2.1-2.fc10.i386

pm-utils uses it on some systems to control backlight and I think
power up/down parts of the card across suspend/resume.

Dave.


> Radeontool may switch the backlight and external video output on and
> off.  Use radeontool at your own risk, it may damage your hardware.
> 
> So, I thought this is an unnecesary package because I'm using an
> nVidia Card, and even with a  radeon card I wouldn't use it 'cause it
> says that can damage my hardware, so I proceeded to uninstall it and
> PackageKit resolved this packages as radeontool dependent 
> 
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> ================================================================================
>  Package                    Arch   Version
> Repository
> 
> Size
> ================================================================================
> Removing:
>  radeontool                 i386   1.5-3.fc9
> installed  37 k
> Removing for dependencies:
>  NetworkManager             i386   1:0.7.0.99-3.fc10
> installed 3.0 M
>  NetworkManager-gnome       i386   1:0.7.0.99-3.fc10
> installed 1.1 M
>  NetworkManager-openvpn     i386   1:0.7.0.99-1.fc10
> installed 427 k
>  NetworkManager-vpnc        i386   1:0.7.0.99-1.fc10
> installed 306 k
>  PolicyKit-gnome            i386   0.9-3.fc10
> installed 398 k
>  alacarte                   noarch 0.11.6-4.fc10
> installed 329 k
>  amarok                     i386   2.0.2-3.fc10
> installed  27 M
>  anaconda                   i386   11.4.1.63-1
> installed  17 M
>  anjuta                     i386   1:2.24.2-1.fc10
> installed  15 M
>  anjuta-devel               i386   1:2.24.2-1.fc10
> installed 3.1 M
>  anjuta-doc                 i386   1:2.24.2-1.fc10
> installed 6.5 M
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> installed 1.6 M
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> installed 8.0 M
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> installed 498 k
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> installed 3.6 M
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> installed 463 k
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> installed  58 k
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> installed 7.1 M
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> installed  22 M
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> installed  59 M
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> installed 3.7 M
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> installed  13 M
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> installed 8.2 M
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> installed 311 k
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> installed 704 k
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> installed 338 k
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> installed 102 k
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> installed 4.1 M
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> installed 4.8 M
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> installed 127 k
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> installed  92 k
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> installed  14 M
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> installed  26 k
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> installed 637 k
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> installed 2.6 M
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> installed 780 k
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> installed 3.3 k
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> installed 306 k
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> installed  27 k
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> installed 301 k
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> installed 1.7 M
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> installed 1.3 M
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> installed 1.3 k
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> installed 4.1 M
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> installed 5.4 M
>  gnome-utils                i386   1:2.24.1-1.fc10
> installed  11 M
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> installed 3.1 M
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> installed 1.9 M
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> installed 127 k
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> installed 1.4 M
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> installed 3.5 M
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> installed 9.3 M
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> installed 2.4 M
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> installed 180 k
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> installed 7.1 M
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> installed 262 k
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> installed 2.2 M
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> installed 100 k
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> installed 4.4 M
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> installed 307 k
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> installed 230 k
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> installed 6.3 M
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> installed 2.3 M
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> installed  0.0 
>  kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686
>                             i686   180.27-1.fc10
> installed 7.5 M
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>                             i686   180.29-1.fc10
> installed 7.5 M
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>                             i686   180.29-1.fc10.1
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> installed  67 k
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> installed 708 k
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>  tomboy                     i386   0.12.0-5.fc10
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> installed 962 k
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> installed 197 k
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> installed  22 M
>  yelp                       i386   2.24.0-6.fc10
> installed 3.2 M
> 
> 
> 
> So for successfully uninstall  this program, that I do not use or I do
> not plan to use(and I can 'cause I do not have a radeon card) I should
> uninstall fedora???? or is this an importan package??
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Atentamente Oscar: 
> 
> 
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