Hi. My laptop is in great need of cpu frequency scaling and sleep (it overheats in 10 minutes of compiling otherwise and sounds like a train when I'm sleeping), and as it seems on every how to I have found; acpi is the way it suppose to be. However acpi isn't so nice, since this is what happens (top)
85:08.20 firefox 22:31.57 X 309:53.76 kacpid after three days of use (notice the 309h of cpu-time). And in powertop, 15.7% ( inf) <interrupt> : acpi acpi takes quite alot of power. And for some reason, sometimes kacpid takes ~80% for many minutes at a time and if I run powertop during that period acpi is responsible for ~90%. I thought that acpi was suppose to help with power waste and stuff like that. On a forum I read that HAL is the thing one should use and acpi is going obsolete. However, that doesn't help so much since it seems as HAL depends on a lot of acpi options in the kernel, which are the ones wasting the cpu and power. So my questions are: Is acpi suppose to act like this? Can I fix it? If not, whats the proper way to migrate to HAL? Does HAL have cpufreq-tools? Any help appreciated. /Blå -- ------------------------------------------------ For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
