Hi, That is what I currently do, but powertop-2.0 does not seem to give the suggestions any more.
Cheers, Keean. On 15 February 2011 12:16, Tim Barnett <[email protected]> wrote: > Would taking the suggested commands from PowerTop and adding them to your > /etc/rc.local script be a good solution for you? > This would save profiling your computer each time as the commands would be > run immediately without running PowerTop. If you find a suggestion that > doesn't work well with your computer then you wouldn't include it in > /etc/rc.local > > A power saving feature that can be annoying is to set the audio module to > powersave, as it makes an annoying "click" just before a sound is played; > however this might be acceptable when running on battery. > > Therefore perhaps a better solution would be to have an interface with > suggestions for saving power that has the options: > Use/Try now > Use always > Use when on battery > > *Use Always* and *Use when on battery* would be scripted so that they > happen automatically without PowerTop being run. > > On 15 February 2011 12:58, Keean Schupke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> How about allowing adding an option to dump the current settings >> (good/bad) to a JSON file. There could be another option to read in the >> settings from a JSON file, and an option that makes it apply the settings >> and quit. >> >> We could then do: >> >> powertop --write-tunables=tunables.txt --exit-immediately >> >> edit the file to make change the good/bad settings then: >> >> powertop --read-tunables=tunables.txt --exit-immediately >> >> >> Cheers, >> Keean. >> >> >> >> On 14 February 2011 23:23, Auke Kok <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 02/08/11 03:59, Keean Schupke wrote: >>> >>>> Would it be possible to add a switch to the command line, that would >>>> make powertop start, switch every possible tunable to "Good" and then quit >>>> again? >>>> >>>> It would be really cool to include this in my boot scripts to make sure >>>> all powersaving features are enabled. >>>> >>>> It would also allow people to automatically benefit from new >>>> recommendations added in future versions of powertop? >>>> >>> >>> This has been suggested with the 1.x version before, and, we're really >>> reluctant to implement this. >>> >>> It's simple enough to break someone's machine with this ("oops, we just >>> turned off your keyboard and mouse"), and, you don't want to do this with >>> some fallback code etc. ("did this fail the last time? skip that step from >>> now on then"). >>> >>> That just makes this too complicated to safely do, especially at startup. >>> Which is why we don't. >>> >>> Powertop is a diagnostics tool. The tool should be used by your >>> distribution to figure out default-good-out-of-the-box settings and include >>> those in your distribution by default. That's really where you need to go >>> and ask in the first place to tweak the knobs at boot time. >>> >>> Auke >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lesswatts.org/listinfo/discuss >> >> > > > -- > The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a > discussion. > - G. K. Chesterton > > It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. > - William G. McAdoo >
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