Sorry forgot about power ML again.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuan Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:41 AM Subject: Re: wakeups due to bluetooth To: Erik Andrén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Erik Andrén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. Yes, but it seems not including all notebook types yet. (they are quite variant for different brands.) It seems that a new interface "rfkill" is being implemented for this. > 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 > > > -- Best regards, Yuan Chao -- Best regards, Yuan Chao _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
