RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:07:27AM -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:

>   - replace the background picture with just black

That would save power, but it's not the only answer - framebuffer 
compression implementations tend to be per line, so as long as most of 
your information content is in the vertical axis rather than the 
horizontal one you'll get the same power savings.

>   - default to a inverted color scheme (predominantly black)

That's not how LCDs work - black will, if anything, consume more power.

>   - disable pulseaudio

And Pulseaudio actually lets us reduce power consumption by increasing 
the fragment size and reducing the interrupt load.

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