On 6/23/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i'm still curious
about you being able to run the command ``hal-stop-polling'' though,
as it's simply not available to me.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] grep -R hal-disable-polling /var/log/packages/
/var/log/packages/hal-0.5.9-i686-1:usr/bin/hal-disable-polling
/var/log/packages/hal-0.5.9-i686-1:usr/man/man1/hal-disable-polling.1.gz
This is my own OS I build/maintain from scratch. It's a standard part of hal
so maybe Debian is excluding it for some reason? That or you are actually
looking for a file called "hal-stop-polling" when you should be looking for
"hal-disable-polling".... :-)
after implementing this change, did you notice much of a change in
your laptop's power consumption? i watched PowerTOP's output for a
couple of minutes before and after disabling polling and didn't see
any change at all. my 15" MBP C2D hovers around 29.3 to 30.6W .
-Nick
No. I never notice a change in power consumption. I just do it so it quits
waking up my procs all the time (which doesn't necessarily translate as
power saved). The hal devs even say that you really shouldn't be polling
devices and that function is there for broken firmware/devices... I've
learned to accept that I only get 30 minutes of battery time under linux. 60
if it's completely idle... :-(
And you guys wonder why I'm always so grumpy!!!!!! :-) It's a never ending
saga... Cue the violin.
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