[ltp] Re: Increased Power Consumption with Fedora 14

Rolf Kutz linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:22:32 +0100


On 13/03/11 07:51 -0500, Chris Schumann wrote:
>On 03/08/2011 02:12 AM, Rolf Kutz wrote:
>>On 07/03/11 12:11 -0600, Chris Schumann wrote:
>>>The it continually shows these two:
>>>hwC0D1 Conexant 2c06
>>>hwC0D0 Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)
>>>are busy 100.0% of the time.
>>
>>This is audio hardware. Do you have problems with
>>audio? What happens if you disable audio?
>Thank you for the suggestion, Rolf. The BIOS doesn't have a setting 
>to disable the audio chip. Can I use a boot parameter for this, or is 
>doing an rmmod after boot sufficient?

You can try rmmod or modprobe -r, but it might
not succeed if something is using that audio
device.

You can add the module to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

regards
Rolf

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