On 2/14/2011 12:44 AM, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:37:02PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On 2/13/2011 8:11 PM, Felipe Castillo wrote: >>> I know that powertop simple puts a 2 or a 1 inside a configuration >>> file, but I can't seem to find the file, and even if I could find it, >>> I don't know what value to change it for and how. >>> Please anybody that could help me, I'm desperate! >> the change that powertop makes is not permanent, it just changes the >> current kernel setting. Any reboot will reset it.... > That should help, but I guess that he does have a more relevant point: > since so many USB input devices are broken from a power management POV, > breakage may happen easily and often, thus information on how to undo it > would better be displayed prominently, especially as long as we don't > have a working and thorough in-kernel blacklist mechanism for broken > devices (is someone working on collecting such information and implementing > the blacklist/whitelist?).
pretty much all HID devices are broken like this... which is why powertop stopped doing USB autosuspend on those quite some time ago... _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
