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
>>>
>>>
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