Originally Posted by reinob

Look. Your N900 is a computer. A computer, when turned on, usually DOES SOMETHING. Otherwise it would not be a computer.

If you have the screen turned on and are running a program (conky), plus a number of system programs that NEED to be running (otherwise you get no e-mails, no calls, no nothing), the computer will use some energy, meaning the battery will, fast or slow, drain.

Every N900 has a number of processes running. Xorg, to name an example, is the one handling the display. Pulseaudio does the sound. Hildon-desktop and hildon-home give you the user interface. Etc, etc.

If those programs were not running, your N900 would be a paperweight.

Now, if you lock/turn off the screen, most processes will stop doing things (because e.g. the desktop doesn't need to display anything), so your CPU will go to sleep and only wake up every now and then (e.g. 5 times per second) to check if, e.g. a phone call is coming in.

So from what you've posted there is no problem. You still haven't said WHAT THE PROBLEM is. We don't know how long your battery takes to run out from being full *and* what you're doing while this happens (obviously, staring at conky for hours will drain the battery faster than if you turn the screen off).

A way for us to know IF there is a problem and possibly diagnose it would be to provide the full output of powertop without running anything else (no opera, no conky, no nothing). With this it would be easy to spot if there's anything abnormal going on.