On Sunday February 1 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
In the aftermath of my ill-considered attempt to install the Gnome Control Center (*), subsequently removed, I find that when I come back to my system after a long idle period, GKrellM is showing me a solid block of 100% CPU, most of it kernel-mode. This abnormal usage ceases with the disengagement of the DPMS / screen saver.
Well, I now think I can say that this symptom has been resolved and it was the recent powerdevil update to version 1.4.1-4.5.2 released via the update repository on Feb. 18, 2009. It appears that the real reason this KDE4 component supplied the resolution to the symptom is that shortly before the Gnome Control Center fiasco alluded to above, I'd installed the KDE4 Personal Settings control center (from kdebase4-workspace 4.1.3-10.1), which had as a dependency powerdevil 1.4.1-4.3. So in fact the Gnome business was a red herring and it was the KDE4 components that introduced the bugged code that produced the extreme CPU consumption when in power-save states. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org