On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:16:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On my HP Compaq nx6325 laptop (AMD Turion 64x2), the kernel uses 100% > of one CPU core to handle hardware interrupts (i.e. the "hi" field in > top is 100%). > > As a consequence, the CPU will never scale its frequency down to 800 > MHz, even with powernowd installed and running. As further > consequences, energy consumption and heat production are abnormally > high, and battery life is abnormally low. > > Unloading (with rmmod) the modules parport and parport_pc solves this > problem. However I have to do that after each reboot.
just blacklist them in /etc/modprobe.d echo parport > /etc/modprobe.d/nx6325_parportlove echo parport_pc > /etc/modprobe.d/nx6325_parportlove > Attached are the outputs of lspci -v, acpidump, and dmidecode, in case > that's useful. you'd anyway newer kernels for this box and even not applied upstream ones, so i'd appreciate if you understand that 2.6.18 is not a good cut off for HP NXxxxx. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]