On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Knecht posted on Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:01:33 -0700 as excerpted: > >> Thanks. That got it. I changed the performance settings (i.e. - not on >> battery, AC working) to do nothing when the lid is closed and it's >> perfect now. > > Hi, fellow Gentooer. =:^) > > FWIW, here, I have the lid events set to turn the screen off and on... > only. No use having the laptop display on wasting power and emitting heat > that's harder to dissipate with the lid closed, when I can see it anyway. > But I use the acpi system config to do it, not kde. Whether kde has that > option or not I wouldn't know, as to the extent possible, I don't have the > kde power management stuff even installed/merged. > > But if you regularly attach an external monitor, you might want to ensure > that any display power toggle only affects the built-in one. At least for > use within X/KDE, that should be easy enough to do using xrandr scripting, > if necessary. CLI-console-only mode might be a bit more difficult to > script... >
Hi Duncan, In the case of my laptop with the 'Do Nothing' setting in KDE the screen automatically goes black when the lid is almost closed. I put my head on the desk and slowly close the lid. At about 3/4" open the screen goes black and power drops from 48.8 Watts to 40.2 Watts. (Using Kill-a-Watt to measure.) I think I've got a pretty good setup for my needs but I need to test that over longer periods of time I can still shell into the machine but for now things seem pretty good. I've not yet played with the cpufrequtils stuff though. Cheers, Mark ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
