On Dec 17, 2007 10:27 PM, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Amit Shah wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My ThinkPad T60 runs Kubuntu 7.10 with 2.6.24-rc5+git.
> >
> > When I switch from mains powered to battery, the wakeups from idle
> > increase from around 37 to 45. The hald-addon-cpufreq kicks in at
> > cpufreq_governor_dbs (delayed_work_timer_fn).
>
> this sounds like a distribution bug; the ondemand dbs should always be 
> running, not just on battery.
> (this is a very bad bug indeed)

Do you mean in laptop-mode.conf? The governor listed there is ondemand
for battery and LM_AC, and performance for LM_NOAC.

>
> I assume you're using at least PowerTOP 1.8 if not 1.9? Since cpufreq now 
> uses deferred timers (which don't actually cause wakeups),
> only later versions of PowerTOP are aware of this in their accounting...
> \

Yes, this is powertop-1.8 from the ubuntu repo.

-- 
Amit Shah
http://www.amitshah.net/

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