On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:31:34PM -0700, The dob wrote: > Hi. I'm having a battery problem. > > I'm running pygame on Maemo (linux on a mobile device). In my main > game loop I am using pygame.event.wait() and sleeping all other > running threads. To me this means that until there is an event, the > process should not consume very much processor time. Unfortunately, > the battery on the device still drains very quickly (about 4 hours > when idle, as compared to 2 days while other applications are idle). > > Running 'top' does not indicate that the idle process is consuming > very much processing power either. > > Has anybody dealt with a similar issue, or have any recommendations? > > Thanks, > Doug
I would be curious if your pygame app is running in full-screen. I don't know anything about the Maemo hardware, but I have seen some other hardware where displaying a full-screen window in a non-default resolution causes a hardware scaler to be used. Such a scaler could impact battery life. --- James Paige
