>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 ? > >(Or could it simply be that the heat output was just below critical and >then the room temperature went up by half a degree ... No, I think the >laptop is perceivably hotter than it used to be.)
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. 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 Ben.
