Bug 436163 - decrease synaptics poll interval to save power
Summary: decrease synaptics poll interval to save power
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: synaptics
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-05 18:34 UTC by Matt Domsch
Modified: 2008-03-19 01:18 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: synaptics-0.14.6-5.fc9
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-03-19 01:18:53 UTC
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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.
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