Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:46:46 +0200 | From | Clemens Koller <> | Subject | Re: sleepy linux 2.6.23-rc9 |
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Pavel Machek schrieb: > I played with powertop a bit, and found a fairly interesting failure > mode. If I boot init=/bin/bash vga=1, I get ~2 wakeups a second, nice. > > When I boot init=/bin/bash vga=791 (vesa framebuffer), most wakeups > are caused by cursor painting (I should fix that some day, I > guess). But... the cursor blinking does not even work properly! > > It blinks at normal speed, then (randomly) it blinks slowly, then gets > back to normal speed, then inserts longer delay.
Is the effect a beat that it has roughly the frequency of your Notebooks screen refresh rate (60Hz)? (in german: Schwebung)
> The effect is so nice that I thought about youtube ;-). Thinkpad > x60.. question is, how to debug it?
No idea... check where the register of the HW cursor blink rate gets written? But as it seems to be so nice, please submit a patch which enables this for all platforms. ;-)
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