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SubjectRe: converting appletouch to usb autosuspend...
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On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 22:47 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Saturday 12 May 2007 19:51:26 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > Dear all,
[...]
> > While we are at it usb related powerhogs on this macbook pro are
> > uhci_hcd (usb keyboard) and usb_hcd_poll_rh_status (rh_timer_func)
> > too...
>
> I've found that hci_usb also hogs power on the Macbook; blacklisting this
> module cuts down HZ considerably. I also found appletouch consumed ticks,

I guess without loading appletouch ? Then there really is something in
there that needs to be fixed..

> just as you did.

What did you use instead of hci_usb then ? usbkbd ? This won't give you
the special keys etc...

> uhci_hcd then drops to noise; my Macbook's sitting on 10W with the backlight
> on minimum, which is about what it can manage in OS X on maximum life
> settings.

Thats quite some improvement...

Soeren.
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