I found that the problem disappeared when I removed the Mono applications/libraries, Ubuntuone, couchDB
And I am not running saned, rsync, speech-dispatcher in /etc/rc2.d/ (CouchDB is uninstalled now) I still do not know which of these caused the problem. Anyway, the battery time is now over 6 1/2 hours when full (more than Windows XP), and the wakeups are about 26 / sec -- karmic: wakeups <kernel core> : hrtimer_start_range_ns (tick_sched_timer) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373245 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs