Re: T430 power draw unexpectedly high

I don't know whether this is pertinent, but I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon (gen 4 I think) which ran the fan at full speed under Linux. A bios update solved this problem. I have converted to OpenBSD (6.6 stable) and the problem has not reappeared. It might be worth checking with Lenovo to see if a

Re: T430 power draw unexpectedly high

In , Dave Trudgian writes [[6.6 or a recent snapshot, Thinkpad T430]] > Under OpenBSD with the system sitting idle at a GUI, WiFi active, 50% > brightness I see ~15W power draw from the battery. This is with `apmd > -A` and the output of `apm`

T430 power draw unexpectedly high

Hello, I've been using OpenBSD 6.6, and now latest snapshot, for a couple of weeks on a Thinkpad T430. Performance and stability is fine and am very much enjoying using this setup, but the battery life is unexpectedly bad, vs what I'd expect having read around OpenBSD supporting c-states and