Bug#469166: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: syndaemon's main loop has a hard-coded poll frequency

[hhaamu@gmail.com]

Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Version: 0.14.7~git20070517-2
Severity: wishlist

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syndaemon's main loop is hard-coded to sleep for 20 milliseconds between
polling. This causes a significant amount of 2 * 50 cpu wakeups per
second (as seen on powertop).

Since syndaemon is mainly useful with laptops, I would like to see this
changed or (optimally) made configurable.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-input-synaptics depends on:
ii  libc6            2.7-6                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libx11-6         2:1.0.3-7               X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6         1:1.0.3-2               X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6           2:1.1.3-1               X11 Input extension library
ii  xserver-xorg-cor 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12lenny2 X.Org X server -- core server

xserver-xorg-input-synaptics recommends no packages.

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