Yuan Chao wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One of the suggestions that Powertop makes is to turn off bluetooth. >> That gets rid of the interrupts from the bluetooth device but at the >> cost of removing bluetooth functionality. Is there any effort to fix > One more thought: the bluetooth itself is a huge power comsumer. What > we need would be an easier on/off mechanism. >
HAL has some support for a software bluetooth killswitch. Also, there's often a physical bluetooth toogle button on laptops. I only enable WLAN / Bluetooth / Webcam when I need them and turn them off after usage to minimize the power consumption. Regards, Erik > _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
