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Hi. |
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My laptop is in great need of cpu frequency scaling and sleep (it |
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overheats in 10 minutes of compiling otherwise and sounds like a train |
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when I'm sleeping), and as it seems on every how to I have found; acpi |
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is the way it suppose to be. |
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However acpi isn't so nice, since this is what happens (top) |
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85:08.20 firefox |
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22:31.57 X |
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309:53.76 kacpid |
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after three days of use (notice the 309h of cpu-time). And in powertop, |
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15.7% ( inf) <interrupt> : acpi |
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acpi takes quite alot of power. And for some reason, sometimes kacpid |
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takes ~80% for many minutes at a time and if I run powertop during |
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that period acpi is responsible for ~90%. |
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I thought that acpi was suppose to help with power waste and stuff |
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like that. On a forum I read that HAL is the thing one should use and |
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acpi is going obsolete. However, that doesn't help so much since it |
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seems as HAL depends on a lot of acpi options in the kernel, which are |
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the ones wasting the cpu and power. |
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So my questions are: |
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Is acpi suppose to act like this? |
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Can I fix it? |
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If not, whats the proper way to migrate to HAL? |
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Does HAL have cpufreq-tools? |
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Any help appreciated. |
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/Blå |
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