Bug 436163

Summary: decrease synaptics poll interval to save power
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch>
Component: synapticsAssignee: Kristian Høgsberg <krh>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: synaptics-0.14.6-5.fc9 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Matt Domsch 2008-03-05 18:34:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
powertop notices the syndaemon 20ms polling loop which prevents the system from
entering lower CPU power states.

http://www.bughost.org/pipermail/power/2008-January/001234.html
includes a patch.
Comment 1 Matt Domsch 2008-03-19 01:18:53 UTC 
After ack from jeremy, I applied the patch from the above mail message, and
changed the default poll to 200ms.  This is built in synaptics-0.14.6-5.fc9.