On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Francois Dion<[email protected]> wrote:
> As a FYI, under OS2009.06 power consumption is at 11(.0 to .3)w with
> wifi enabled

Also, with the eee version, kstat shows all the atom cpu freqs, but
never throttles to lower than full speed (1.6GHz), unless you change
the /etc/power.conf to have:

cpupm enable poll-mode

(then follow with pmconfig)

Does it work? Not in a super drastic way, but it does work some.
Normally power use is between 11w and 11.3w, and with the above, the
floor is now about 10.4w.

Shutting down the wifi gets us down further to about 9.2w.

On this blog: 
http://blog.security4all.be/2008/12/portablepwnage-part-4-installing-ubuntu.html
it is mentionned: "The last trick needed apparently were some custom
ACPI scripts for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex I found on the eeeuser.com
forums. After installing these scripts, my average power consumption
dropped from 10.4w/h to 9.5w/h with wifi enabled"

So, this might be of benefit... the acpi script he's mentionning is
found in this thread:

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=420248

Wonder how he got 0.9w/h. Looks like the scripts tweak the fan
operation, that sounds risky. Also FSB powersave is tweaked and maybe
some other stuff.

Francois
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