² doesn't take into account. Assuming a fixed amount of work,
race to idle is almost always the most power efficient strategy.
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:03:42AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
On 3/8/2012 9:47 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
This is (broadly speaking) untrue. There's a bunch of fixed costs that a
naive P=IV² doesn't take into account. Assuming a fixed amount of work,
race to idle is almost always the most
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:22:04AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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Yes, if those are the actual power figures. But they're typically not
going to be.
Can you be a little less vague and hand wavy?
My i7 draws about 7W when fully loaded at 800MHz
ignoring far too many factors for this to be terribly relevant.
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, but if there is enough need for that, someone will step
up).
Mesa will shortly be sufficient for running gnome-shell even on systems
without hardware 3D. At that point there won't be any necessity for
gnome panel, although it's possible that someone will want to maintain
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? This seems sensible. The value can be user-adjustable.
echo 75000 /sys/class/thermal/whatever/passive
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battery intensive.
What would the differences be?
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. I don't think that's the tradeoff you're thinking about.
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The use-cases are not unique to laptops.
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rather than spec violations by the manufacturer.
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Applet 2.24.0 has no effect and neither do the Fn
Home or end buttons.
Turns out the R40e has an amusingly broken BIOS that results in the
kernel listening for events in the wrong place. Should be fixed in the
upstream kernel before too long.
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:01:33PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/10/29 16:28 (GMT-0400) Phillip Susi composed:
How exactly is mc vital to fixing a broken X?
It's vital to fixing broken __, __, __, ___, etc., etc. in
generic fashion
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Surely the correct solution is to fix hal so it flags these devices as
input.joystick and not input.mouse? input_test_rel in
hald/linux/device.c looks pretty dumb.
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:51:59AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
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The thread was discussing the removal of network-admin - doesn't that
modify /etc/network/interfaces?
Yes it does that atm. But if network-admin is still wanted
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:31:07AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
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To be fair to NM, this is a Debian/Ubuntu integration issue. System-wide
configuration is present but requires a system-specific backend.
NetworkManager has
to
leave network-admin and work on NM to improve it to get it finally
worthy to ditch good old g-s-t tool for good.
To be fair to NM, this is a Debian/Ubuntu integration issue. System-wide
configuration is present but requires a system-specific backend.
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also about the only
generally useful i686 instruction, so gcc generates it if you ask it to
build for i686.
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closer to fixing the unfamous bug 59695.
I don't see how.
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system.
Thanks,
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No, something else is going on here. usb-storage is entirely unrelated
to the IDE subsystem, so doesn't care whether you're using libata or
not. Something else is triggering this bug.
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The bug is incorrect. That's not an eject button, it's a dock eject
request button.
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-modules.
Finally, if the madwifi-source isn't available, then I suspect there's a
bug in module-assistant, seeing that it still has madwifi as an option.
Yes, that's true.
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up in /proc/acpi is if it's
supported by the acpi battery driver, which has now been ported to
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The madwifi code is already in linux-restricted-modules, so there's no
benefit in providing a separate source package as well.
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/etc/acpi/events/sleepbtn to call sleepbtn.sh and not sleep.sh?
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changing that file? If so, I did not.
acpid needs restarting, so rebooting is the easiest way to do that. If
Fn+Esc no longer works, there's some sort of KDE issue.
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not work. either nor the keyboard
sleep button.
Ok. Sounds like KDE is failing to respond to the sleep button signal.
I'm afraid I've no expertise beyond this point.
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. if it's going to be the main power management tool, it
seems like an important piece of infrastructure; is anyone at ubuntu
watching over it at all? if so, please let me know what i can do to
help with debugging and stuff.
Yes, I'm looking after it.
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No - cdrtools still links GPLed code into a CDDLed binary. It's
undistributable in its current form.
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on this list or start bugs?
Now is a fine time to provide feedback - there shouldn't be any major
changes. Filing bugs is ok, but if you think an issue is generic then
feel free to bring it up here.
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Ah, interesting. Yes, that would explain the difference. I'll take a
look at hibernate and see what it's doing by default (I haven't checked
it out in some time). We are talking about suspend to RAM here, right?
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:08:06AM +0100, Wouter Stomp wrote:
I would not consider features like inhibiting Gnome Power Manager from
suspending while burning niche, that is something that should just
work.
Well, that's clearly a bug that needs fixing in Nautilus in any case.
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and count based checks.
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we can make this work properly within the next 18 months.
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indicates either filesystem corruption or that something has heavily
screwed with the permissions. It certainly doesn't look anything like a
hal bug. What are you actually complaining about?
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for no obviously good
reason, a pile of perfectly valid wishlist bugs or issues that require
further work in the rest of the distribution first have suddenly closed.
Who on earth thought that this was a good idea?
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it easier for
users to replace important system files, and we certainly shouldn't be
making it easier for arbitrary third parties to encourage them to do so.
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:32:01AM +0530, shirish wrote:
Please lemme know whichever way is cool. Btw it would be cool
if we could package it in gutsy. Somebody wants to take a shot at it
;)
We're past feature freeze, so it's unlikely for gutsy.
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or not. Plese do not mark real bugs as
invalid just because you feel that it's taken too long.
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installation
(libraries, binaries, and kernel modules) of up to 12k files in around 4
seconds. This theoretically scales to 5k full machine scans per mirror
per day.
It's possible that I'm missing the point here, but what guarantees do
you have that you can trust your Dom0?
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to do with the GDM sound. Muting that by default would be an
accessibility problem...
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ended up with massively improved font support as a
result.
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On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:11:21PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
Are you saying that libata is supposed to always enable 32bit dma transfers?
When the drive and controller are both capable of it, yes.
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themselves. If that's not happening,
please file a bug against the kernel.
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On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:09:04AM +0800, Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
Matthew Garrett wrote:
No, I don't think that the ordering of devices is a bug - the bug is
that we're assuming that the Linux device ordering bears some sort of
relation to the Bios device ordering, which is simply not true
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:58:26PM +, yelo_3 wrote:
So the question is: is there now a unified method to control wireless power?
No.
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, this is heavily dependent upon your video driver. Things
are getting better, especially with the move to xrandr 1.2.
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