Re: [timidity]: question about deep sleep & responsiveness

[Joost Yervante Damad <andete@debian.org>]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 16:01:58 Chr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a new laptop with a onboard sound system, without any hw
> synthesizer... since I'm an MIDI diehard, I tried timidity... (which worked
> out of the box! THX!!)
>
> Unfortunatly, the 10ms wakeup cycle in interface/alsaseq_c.c kills the
> battery pretty fast. -> So, here's a quick patch to address this problem.
>
> Yes, the logic is a bit oversized, a simple NULL instead of &timeout as
> select's last parameter, would do it as well. But I tried to "conserve" the
> old behaviour... because I don't know if some old/slow machines needs it
> this way.
>
> So, is there any hope for my battery?

Looks okay, at least as idea :)

Could you open a wishlist bug on timidity? That way I won't forget to look at 
it the next time I work on timidity.

Thanks! Joost