Re: reducing power usage of Fedora - how you can help!

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer jdub homelinux org>]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:27:02 +0200
Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:06 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Would you like your laptop battery to last longer? Would you like
> > your servers to use less electricity? We certainly would. So we're
> > investigating and fixing Fedora to use less juice.
> > 
> > One of the biggest power problems is apps that wake up the CPU
> > unnecessarily. With the tickless kernel for x86 (and soon x86_64),
> > every time this happens it's a chance for power savings lost.
> > 
> > HOW YOU CAN HELP
> > ----------------
> > 
> > We'd like to get as many reports of misbehaving apps as possible.
> How about the kernel? My laptop doesn't boot Fedora without acpi
> disabled.

Did you file a bug?

josh