Hi,

I see what you mean - I've just run both versions to compare what's
displayed.
Even looking at the html output it doesn't show the commands that are needed
to optimise.

Tim

On 15 February 2011 13:32, Keean Schupke <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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>>
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>> discussion.
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>>
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>>
>
>


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