On 1/23/09, Paul Menzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 22.01.2009, 09:21 -0800 schrieb Kok, Auke: >> konrad hofer wrote: > >> > I run Ubuntu 8.10 which includes powertop 1.10. >> > >> > When I run powertop I get this message: >> > >> > A USB device is active 100.0% of the time: >> > USB device 1-1 : Compaq USB Keyboard (CHICONY) >> > >> > Any ideas? >> >> unfortunately there's not much you can do about this, other than >> disconnecting the >> mouse/ keyboard and replacing it with a different model :) >> >> of course, that's not very practical. > > Just a shoot into the dark. Could USB auto suspend help here? Or is this > already activated?
Not much, usbautosuspend suspends *inactive* devices. AFAIK the only hope is a fixed driver, although in your case, since it's such a standard device, chances are the driver is fine but the hardware is broken ? _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
