On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:21:23AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote: > > Understood, just making sure this was still potentially useful considering > > what I found out since my last message. > > Which version of powertop are you actually using? None of current The latest, i.e. 2.4. > versions would show you Watt usage for devices. Sure it does :) Summary: 3182.2 wakeups/second, 82.5 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 33.5% Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description 9.82 W 100.0% Device USB device: Yubico Yubike 2.67 W 4.1 ms/s 43.2 Process /usr/bin/pulseaudio --sta 2.58 W 100.0% Device USB device: Integrated Ca 2.35 W 100.0% Device USB device: BCM20702A0 (B 2.32 W 32.9% Device Display backlight 1.39 W 100.0% Device Radio device: btusb 343 mW 100.0% Device Radio device: thinkpad_ac Now, I've found those values to be often wrong or questionable. > you can use "watch grep . *" instead and check fallowing fields: > runtime_suspended_time - suspend time. If it is growing device is suspended > runtime_active_kids - if not zero, some program use it > control - if "on" then autosuspend is disabled. Understood. Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html