powertop on Inspiron 6400

[bluebird]

Yeah, that's probably your cdrom drive.

Instead of disabling hal completely try(eg when entering battery mode):
	hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cdrom

and to enable it again(eg when entering ac mode)
	hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cdrom --enable-polling

This way hal is still usable (eg for automounting usb sticks) only
automounting the cdrom won't work anymore.

Cheers,
Friedrich

Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2007, 21:32 +0300 schrieb Ismail Dönmez:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 21:28:46 Török Edvin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have tried powertop on a Dell  Inspiron 6400 (CPU: Core Duo).
> > After following some of the tips I got from 3.1h to 4h of battery. Great
> > tool!
> >
> > The top wakeup cause is ide1:
> > 35.2% ( 9.0)    <interrupt> : ide1
> 
> Thats possibly because of hal, so try disabling hal first.
> 
> /ismail
> 
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