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? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org