Re: New kernel -> more heat ?
>OK. So the answer seems to be to stay out of X most of the time. That's
>fine by me. But I'm still puzzled by the change in behaviour after
>upgrading the kernel (that's the only thing I changed) ... Is there any
>powerpc equivalent of the "Do APM Idle calls when idle" option on x86,
>that would just have been disabled in the benh tree ?
>
>(Or could it simply be that the heat output was just below critical and
>then the room temperature went up by half a degree ... No, I think the
>laptop is perceivably hotter than it used to be.)
I've hacked things around the power management at idle time
lately, I may well have broken it for some time. Please resync
again and tell me how it goes.
A good way to measure it is to use gkrellm-pmu or BatMon and
see the current consumed by the machine. When idle, it should be
around 800 mA
Ben.
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