On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:44:59 -0700 "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 21:47 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:30:57 +0100, Nathanael d. Noblet wrote: > > > I don't know much about it but I hate how bad my battery life is > > > on my laptop... > > > > My 3 years old Lenovo X220 lasts for 12 hours (powertop reports so) > > on Fedora 20 x86_64 with powertop --auto-tune. According to > > powertop approx. 5.5W is display backlight and 1W is the rest of > > system. > > > > Just to give a reply that Fedora is not bad on all configs/hardware. > > Well until yesterday I didn't know that Fedora didn't install / > configure any of these packages. I've installed tlp and powertop, I > didn't know powertop did anything other than monitor. I'll see what > powertop --auto-tune does. I don't even know if the tlp package has > enabled anything either. I wonder if having tlp installed and running > powertop --auto-tune will conflict / fight each other... > > Time to try stuff out. You might also look at tuned... (I think it was mentioned early in the thread). tuned-adm profile powersave Also: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html-single/Power_Management_Guide/index.html Of course it would be nice if this stuff just did the right thing and you didn't have to run any commands or read any guides. kevin
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