Comment 34 for bug 877560

I have just upgraded from Maverick to Natty to Oneiric, since Maverick just lost security support. My fan is running at high speed blowing hot air. I have now removed my battery from my laptop and I'm strictly running on AC power. Powertop shows:
Summary: 355,9 wakeups/second, 0,0 GPU ops/second and 0,0 VFS ops/sec

                Usage Events/s Category Description
            100,0% Device Audio codec hwC0D0: IDT
              3,8 ms/s 86,3 Timer hrtimer_wakeup
             28,9 ms/s 69,3 Process /usr/lib/firefox-11.0/firefox
              2,9 ms/s 46,3 Timer tick_sched_timer
             22,8 ms/s 33,0 Process compiz
             10,7 ms/s 31,8 Process /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp v
              1,5 ms/s 21,2 Interrupt [44] radeon
             14,3 ms/s 8,2 Process /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
             11,1 ms/s 3,0 Process //bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --s
            179,1 µs/s 7,2 kWork ieee80211_iface_work
              0,9 ms/s 6,5 Interrupt [6] tasklet(softirq)
             33,9 µs/s 4,2 kWork console_callback
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