Comment 81 for bug 760131

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Alessandro Lazzari (lazzari-alessandro) wrote :

@Matthew Hessel

Yes, the [radeon] driver is the xorg one. Intel drivers show that behaviour too, even if on the powertop website they state that the issue is now fixed.

Here are the figures for a Dell D630 ATG laptop, Natty stock kernel. The i915 driver causes 62+ wakeups /sec. with unity/gnome effects, and none in the 2D desktop.

21,5% ( 81,7) [extra timer interrupt]
16,5% ( 62,7) [i915] <interrupt>
16,0% ( 60,7) [ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb5] <interrupt>
16,0% ( 60,7) Dispositivo USB 5-2 : Compact Optical Mouse 500 (Microsoft )
5,9% ( 22,3) kworker/0: