Hi, [I know that this is a very basic question and I expected to find it in the FAQ or something, but after reading the documentation, searching in the list archives and google'ing I couldn't find it, so there it goes]
I've been playing with Powertop and found it very useful. After following the suggestions and making some changes I can get my system to be in the "green" side (less than 10 wakeups per second) while idle. But now I wonder how much this will help if simply moving the mouse can cause 450 wakeups per second. Is this really unavoidable? I guess it must be to achieve a great precision in fast mouse movements, maybe necessary for some games, but for normal usage couldn't it be enough with something in the line of 20-40 wakeups per second? I mean, no one is going to play fast action games in a (linux) laptop while on battery, so couldn't it be possible to have a powersave mode to use while on battery (just as other components have powersave modes that might hurt performance/latency a bit)? Or maybe all those wakeups don't affect battery life enough to even care about it? Thanks, Alberto. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
