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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: ~500 wakeups/sec with xorg-input-synaptics
From:       Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer () who-t ! net>
Date:       2013-03-12 6:15:27
Message-ID: 20130312061527.GA18770 () yabbi ! redhat ! com
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On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 11:07:12PM +1100, Will Rouesnel wrote:
> I've been noticing lately that my laptop is (Dell L501x) is producing a
> truly staggering number of wakeups when I use the touchpad - ~500 or so
> per second when the touchpad is moved.
> 
> I'm using the 1.6.2-1 version of the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in
> Linux Mint (Ubuntu). Is there a known cause of this (or a patch for it?)
> - this seems like an unreasonably high amount of wake ups even for an
> input device like a touchpad, and seems to be by far the biggest single
> cause of them on my system when on battery power.

i get ~450 wakeups/s using the touchpad when X is _not_ running. So it
appears this isn't the synaptics driver but rather the device or the kernel.

Cheers,
   Peter

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