Public bug reported: syndaemon is polling at 5Hz even on an idle system. It is waking up the CPU and wasting power.
However, it is running with -R option that should enable it to use XRecord which avoids polling, so I believe gnome-settings-daemon is doing the right thing. This used to work, I believe it was fixed for natty (see bug #633125), so it is a regressed on Oneric and it is also broken in Precise (I checked against today's daily build). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.4.1-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Dec 20 17:12:36 2011 DistroCodename: oneiric DistroVariant: ubuntu EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug battery-power-consumption oneiric running-unity ubuntu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906987 Title: syndaemon polls 5 times a second even though it is started with the -R XRecord extension option To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/906987/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs