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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: GSoC: automatic brightness adjustment
From:       Dario Freddi <drf54321 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-04-05 14:39:51
Message-ID: CAFFVnfOK4sh0BLQj=fbpRtMvjiwwb2skCPWz9+iD=Rn1vZ8Zow () mail ! gmail ! com
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Il 05 aprile 2012 16:28, Christopher Blauvelt <cblauvelt@gmail.com> ha scritto:
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> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Dario Freddi <drf54321@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Il 05 aprile 2012 07:32, Mike Dean <miketdean@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>> > As an electrical engineer, I find this idea sound.
>>
>> Allow me, as an information engineer and a computer scientist, to
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> As an engineer (choo, choo, I'm wearing my hat!)

With my "reading between the lines" hat, my allusion was very ironic,
if it wasn't clear :)

> allow me to remind everyone
> that the wake-ups from the timers associated with such sampling would
> prevent the CPU from going into power-save mode causing increased power
> draw.

And in my previous mail I forgot how the overhead given from
processing the resulting image would draw CPU resources and power
every reasonably short interval.

Any other engineers want to give out their opinion? :D (joking)

>
> Chris
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