>Here's another slight problem I'm having since upgrading to 2.4.16-ben0 >on my powerbook titanium 1st generation. When doing block i/o on the >dvd drive (dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null), the mouse moves randomly and >the pmu reports spurious dead battery conditions. During the dd, use of >the trackpad causes random pointer motion. The battery is >intermittently reported at 2% or 3%, even when fully charged and plugged >in. > >The same problem does not happen if I bind /dev/hdc to a raw device and >dd from that. The problem is only present when using regular i/o.
I don't see that happening with 2.4.17pre2 on a new tipb (but the ATAPI hw is the same). Ben.
