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Old 01-20-2007, 06:19 PM   #1
eccentric4
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Suse 10.2 - Power Managment issues - Sony FS640/W


Greetings all, been awhile for me here...

I put Suse 10.2 on my Sony FS640/W, standard full install. I'm having the same problem I had with 10.1 on it. When the computer is plugged into AC power, its slow-ish. The bouncy icons on start up are very draggy. On the splash start up screen, the dots that fly around the suse logo, stop and start and are not fluid like on my desktops.

The second I unplug my laptop, everything speeds up to what I would expect this laptop to do.

I pass acpi=off and VOILA!! My computer is blazingly fast, albeit there's no battery indicator, etc. But I know what why THAT is... So, I try to hit up Google... only to find that I no longer have a wireless card. It's there, it sees it, it configures it in YaST, but there is no longer an eth1 in my ifconfig. Flat out, my wireless goes AWOL, but my computer is FAST!

So I remove the boot args, and *SCREECH!* the comptuer is back in slo-mo. It's obviously something to do with ACPI... I don't mind turning it off, I RARELY use the HORRIBLE battery power, but I would like to have my wireless connection. Is this possible?

~Jimmy
 
Old 01-20-2007, 07:17 PM   #2
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I would try getting rid of the laptop power management profile and the powersaved daemon. Use YaST to do this.
 
Old 01-20-2007, 08:32 PM   #3
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Well, I stopped the powersaved daemon, but I'm not sure about the laptop power management profile and where it's at, let alone how to disable it.

In any case, stopping the powersave daemon has no effect on performance.

Thanks for the help, though! That's the fastest response I've gotten on LQ!!
 
  


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