syndaemon polls 5 times a second
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Rodrigo Moya | ||
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-
The "Disable touchpad while typing" option in System-
syndaemon has code to use XRecord to avoid polling, but it appears to be compiled without HAVE_XRECORD, even though Xorg appears to provide that extension (judging from xdpyinfo output). It also requires -R to be passed on the command line, although perhaps it would be a reasonable default?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xserver-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Related branches
- Ubuntu Desktop: Pending requested
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Diff: 56 lines (+33/-0)3 files modifieddebian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/patches/05_use_xrecord.patch (+25/-0)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Low → Undecided |
Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya) |
status: | New → In Progress |
When my system is idle, syndaemon makes up the 50% of the number of processor wakeups per second.
This increases battery consumption.