Hi! > > For notebooks, devices *are* islands. powerop tries to push > > everything-depends-on-everything model that may be good for some SoC, > > but sucks for notebooks. We need some middle ground. > > USB being enabled and causing your laptop battery to dry up is a case > where laptop device dependency has been shown. There are likely many > more cases. I would expect BIOS/chip set developers are all too aware > of these in their sub-domains. No, it is because USB enabled prevents cpu from sleeping; it is actually well known. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html