Bug#469166: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: syndaemon's main loop has a hard-coded poll frequency

2008-03-04 Thread Nathan Myers
The patch looks correct as far as it goes, but it doesn't seem actually to fix any problem. In particular, few will know to set the -f option, and the default is as ill-chosen as the hard-coded value was. Why should it poll more than 5 times/s? Indeed, why should it poll at all? Might it not

Bug#469166: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: syndaemon's main loop has a hard-coded poll frequency

2008-03-03 Thread hhaamu
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Version: 0.14.7~git20070517-2 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** syndaemon's main loop is hard-coded to sleep for 20 milliseconds between polling. This causes a significant amount of 2 * 50 cpu wakeups per second (as seen on