While experimenting with getting my laptop's power usage down, I discovered that moving the mouse caused a lot of i8042 interrupts (with a finger resting on the pad, just under 430 interrupts per second (per core? this is a core 2 duo)). With all these interrupts, my power usage increased by like 1.1w, which is a lot considering I can get it down to around 10.1w.
Apart from not using the touchpad, is there anything I can do to decrease the power usage. 480 interrupts seams a little high, considering the touchpad is only meant to generate 40 or 80 packets of data per second. Thanks , ____________ Scott Mansell _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
