[arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I like having volume control for HDMI out. And I like that this mysterious
> starving audio, playing silence, glitch has disappeared. But I don't like
> that pulse uses so much CPU and i think it's a major reason why my computer
> is runn 5-8 degrees C hotter with gnome3

FWIW, this is almost certainly a bug that can be fixed. In my
experience PA allows huge power savings compared to ALSA (down from
more than 100 wakeups/sec to less than 10 wakeups/sec).

Try debugging a bit to see what is going on powertop2 should be very helpful.

Cheers,

Tom