On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 15:23 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:44:59 -0700 > "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathan...@gnat.ca> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 21:47 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:30:57 +0100, Nathanael d. Noblet wrote: > > > > I don't know much about it but I hate how bad my battery life is > > > > on my laptop... > > > > > > My 3 years old Lenovo X220 lasts for 12 hours (powertop reports so) > > > on Fedora 20 x86_64 with powertop --auto-tune. According to > > > powertop approx. 5.5W is display backlight and 1W is the rest of > > > system. > > > > > > Just to give a reply that Fedora is not bad on all configs/hardware. > > > > Well until yesterday I didn't know that Fedora didn't install / > > configure any of these packages. I've installed tlp and powertop, I > > didn't know powertop did anything other than monitor. I'll see what > > powertop --auto-tune does. I don't even know if the tlp package has > > enabled anything either. I wonder if having tlp installed and running > > powertop --auto-tune will conflict / fight each other... > > > > Time to try stuff out. > > You might also look at tuned... > > (I think it was mentioned early in the thread). > > tuned-adm profile powersave > > Also: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html-single/Power_Management_Guide/index.html > > Of course it would be nice if this stuff just did the right thing and > you didn't have to run any commands or read any guides.
Oh my I've barely started readind the above and its great... I wish I knew of this long ago. Thanks for the pointers and mention of tuned. -- Nathanael -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
