On 02/26/2007 09:22 AM somebody named Roger.Munoz wrote:

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solving this one?

Roger

I have almost the same problem on my Dell. When I switch from mains to battery, there's a CPU spike which lasts for several minutes. I believe it's due to hald, its being confused, perhaps in some loop which takes a lot of processing to resolve.

The video is "jerky" probably because it's not getting enough CPU. Try running "top" in a terminal before changing the power source and see what's running.

Ken

I've had a look at top and nothing jumps out to suggest anything is wrong. I think the problem lies with acpi because if I turn off acpi at boot, every thing is ok (apart from the fact the powersave functions are disabled).

Any more ideas?

First, you should reply to the list, not to me personally. Yeah, I know the way the list is set up is screwy, but that's just one of those annoyances we have to deal with. Secondly, you should leave the original statement of the problem in replies. Otherwise, you're expecting me and everyone else to remember your particular problem over whatever time span-- hours, days, weeks-- it takes to solve it... which isn't likely to happen. In general, there's two ways to resolve an issue: try to isolate it to the point where the fix is verifiable or thrown possible solutions at it until one sticks. The more of the first you do, the less/better of the latter you'll be doing. So turning off acpi is good. I'd suggest turning it back on and shutting down powersaved just to see if you get the same results. If so, read "man powersave/d" and try performing some commands manually. Also have a look at /var/log/messages; you might find some error messages for powersaved there. For example, I occasionally get WARNING in Function handleHWEventRequest; line 108: Could not read from hwEvent fd: 4, error: Connection reset by peer What version of powersaved are you running? hth, ken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org