> >OK. So the answer seems to be to stay out of X most of the time. That's
> >fine by me. But I'm still puzzled by the change in behaviour after
> >upgrading the kernel (that's the only thing I changed) ... Is there any
> >powerpc equivalent of the "Do APM Idle calls when idle" option on x86,
> >that would just have been disabled in the benh tree ?
>
> I've hacked things around the power management at idle time
> lately, I may well have broken it for some time. Please resync
> again and tell me how it goes.
Ah, that fixed it. The one which was broken was from the 16/09/2002 at
around 9h30 pm (2.4.20-pre5), just in case you want to know.
> A good way to measure it is to use gkrellm-pmu or BatMon and
> see the current consumed by the machine. When idle, it should be
> around 800 mA
Previous one (with the bug) : ~ 1700 mA and does not increase if the cpu
is used heavily (yes>/dev/null).
With the current one I get 1100 mA consistently when idle --- this is
with full backlight, an optical USB mouse, and the airport running, at
667 MHz.
Thanks for everything,
/vincent
