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

[Brendan Long]

On 04/08/2011 12:11 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> 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
It could also be that GNOME 3 uses hardware acceleration by default[1].
If weren't running Compiz before, it might be making a difference (I
have no idea how it compares if you were using Compiz before).

[1] http://www.gnome3.org/faq.html - See "Will my computer be able to
run GNOME 3?"