@Tom Thankyou for pointing out powertop2. It allows for more control than the original powertop. The URL in the PKGBUILD is not correct because of kernel.org's changes. Googling for a new location was easy enough. @Mauro Thankyou for the information. -- Neal On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Neal Haslam <nrhaslam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Powertop reports "no ACPI power usage estimate available" with x86_64 > > kernels 3.0.6-1 and 3.0.6-2. > > > > Downgrading to kernel 3.0.4-1 restored power estimates. Older kernels > had > > always worked in the past. > > > > Processor is Intel i3, quad core, in a ThinkPad Edge 14 running Gnome 3.2 > > fully upgraded daily. > > Have you tried with powertop2 instead? powetop is not maintained any > longer, so we should probably get around to updating to powertop2 at > some point... (I have been meaning to). > > -t >
