On Friday 26 June 2009 11:34:13 Jan Willies wrote:
> Hi Alberto,
>
> Am 26.06.2009 00:38, schrieb Alberto Gonzalez:
> > Now I have upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 (a distro kernel - Arch Linux) and
> > powertop tells me to enable USB auto-suspend too,  the difference is that
> > now it does have an effect and the wakeups get reduced. The problem is
> > that I lose my mouse and keyboard. Is this the desired effect of enabling
> > USB auto-suspend? Or was the previous behavior the correct one? Hhmm,
> > shouldn't it be something in between, i.e, that USB get suspended when
> > I'm not using the keyboard or mouse but that it wakes up when I do?
>
> Matthew Garrett blogged some background on this:
>
> http://mjg59.livejournal.com/111995.html

Thanks for the link. Interestingly Matthew Garrett says there that powertop is 
actually doing it in the wrong way (USB autosuspend), so maybe this is a bug 
in powertop (bug in the sense of using a wrong/old implementation)?

As I said in my other reply, I've found out that my mouse can actually auto-
suspend successfully (and wake up) by modifying 
/sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/ausotsuspend (while powertop kills it 
altogether). So maybe that's the one that powertop should touch when you press 
the U key?

>
>
>   - jan

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