Re: Pismo status
On Sat, May 20, 2000, David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org> wrote:
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>You can always turn off the gnome screensaver and just use xset to turn on
>screen blanking, though. :-)
The problem with the screensaver is that it will use the CPU, and so it
prevents it from going to the DOZE mode (power saving mode). This is done
in the kernel idle task. That's why, for example, just browsing text will
eat less battery on a powerbook than doing big compiles or calculations.
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