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I'm on a Compaq 615 and it's fan is loud as hell. Not much you can do about that but I'm trying to keep the CPU/GPU as cool as possible.
This is what Powertop has to say:
If I change all of them to "good", the changes don't survive a reboot.
Also, upon exiting Powertop I get this:
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I am running an ubuntu lucid laptop on battery. I want to make my power last as long as possible. Aswell as the normal things like turn down screen brightness, and turn off wifi, I'm using powertop. It will sometimes tell me things, e.g.:
Suggestion: Enable USB autosuspend by pressing the U key
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PowerTop application provides C-state data and p-state data , but i'm not sure which CPUcore that data pertains to. And if I'd like to obtain PowerTop data fro each CPU core, how can I accoplish that ?
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I'm getting really low battery life under ubuntu, not even close to windows. I tried powertop, and I saw that my laptop is consuming in idle nearly 20 watts (a bit more).
I tried to install laptop-mode-tools, change "good" into "bad" in powertop, but nothing changes. I see that I have the the HD…
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This is related to the issue discussed in this question.
Summary: the mouse freezes when operating on battery since it is autosuspended after a certain time and needs more time to wake up.
Disabling usb-autosuspend for the mouse's receiver in powertop is a temporary solution but does not survive…
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