Bug#471259: amphetamine: game loop is busy (runs CPU at 100%)

[Jon Dowland]

Package: amphetamine
Version: 0.8.10-12
Severity: minor

I expect a lot of games will operate like this (maybe I
should invent a usertag for them); it will be
non-trivial to make them operate in another manner, and many
people may not consider it a bug. BUT: the central event
loop for this game runs the CPU at 100%.  This consumes
battery life faster than necessary and for those of us
unlucky enough to have CPU fans that sound like jetplanes
at full speed, causes a fair amount of environmental noise.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages amphetamine depends on:
ii  amphetamine-data        0.8.7-12         data files for the game "Amphetami
ii  libc6                   2.7-6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080112-1 GCC support library
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.13-1         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080112-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxpm4                 1:3.5.7-1        X11 pixmap library

amphetamine recommends no packages.

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