From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265148AbTLFMku (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:40:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265155AbTLFMkt (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:40:49 -0500 Received: from mail.broadpark.no ([217.13.4.2]:16588 "EHLO mail.broadpark.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265148AbTLFMkd (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:40:33 -0500 Subject: Re: Synaptics PS/2 driver and 2.6.0-test11 From: Kjartan Maraas To: Michal Jaegermann Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Lukas Hejtmanek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20031130202521.A30370@mail.harddata.com> References: <20031130214612.GP2935@mail.muni.cz> <200311301728.10563.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20031130223953.GR2935@mail.muni.cz> <200311301826.52978.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20031130202521.A30370@mail.harddata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-Id: <1070714229.6606.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.5 Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:37:28 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On søn, 2003-11-30 at 20:25 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:26:52PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Sunday 30 November 2003 05:39 pm, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:28:10PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > > I'm using ACPI both in 2.4.22 and 2.6.0. I'm using battery_applet > > > (gnome applet) for testing battery state. > > > > > > I will try it. Is acpi=off at boot time enough for that? > > > > How often does battery_applet poll the battery? > > This particular applet was written by some genius to read a state > from ACPI _every second_. To add insult to injury it rereads a > constant information from ...battery/info on every round instead of > storing it. As you can guess it can sink a substantial amount of > cycles and other resources especially that ACPI in BIOS is also > often on a very heavy side. > This has been improved in CVS and will be in the next release out shortly. The fixes have helped resolve a load of issues wrt CPU usage and jerkyness when using this applet and ACPI. > > Start with polling the > > battery less often, let's say every 3 minutes > > Likely even every 3 seconds will make a difference but maybe not > enough. > There's a test tarball at http://www.gnome.org/~kmaraas/gnome-applets- 2.4.2-test.tar.gz if you want to try out the current stuff. Cheers Kjartan