forgot the actual patch, oops

gpm-1.20.1-aligned-sleep.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+--- gpm-1.20.1/src/console.c.org	2006-09-03 10:11:17.000000000 +0200
++++ gpm-1.20.1/src/console.c	2006-09-03 10:14:34.000000000 +0200
+@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
+ #include <time.h>          /* time() */
+ #include <sys/fcntl.h>     /* O_RDONLY */
+ #include <sys/stat.h>      /* mkdir()  */
++#include <sys/time.h>
+ #include <asm/types.h>     /* __u32 */
+ 
+ #include <linux/vt.h>      /* VT_GETSTATE */
+@@ -102,8 +103,17 @@ int is_text_console(void)
+ /*-------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+ void wait_text_console(void)
+ {
++   struct timeval now;
++   int usecs;
+    do {
+-      sleep(2);
++      /* sleep to the top of the seconds about 2 seconds from now */
++      gettimeofday(&now, NULL);
++      usecs = 2000000;
++      if (now.tv_usec <= 250000)
++          usecs -= 1000000;
++      usecs += 1000000 - now.tv_usec;
++
++      usleep(usecs);
+    } while (!is_text_console());
+ }
+ 

gpm.spec

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ fi
 %changelog
 * Tue Oct 10 2006 Petr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com> - 1.20-1-76
 - align sleeps to tick boundary, should reduce cpu wakeups
-  on laptops, fixes #205064
+  on laptops, fixes #205064 (patch by Arjan van de Ven)
 - disable gpm altogether in runlevel 5, it is probably not
   worth the overhead considering it is barely used at all