PowerTOP tool released; time to fix the wasted laptop power on fedora?

[Martin Sourada]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 23:38 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
>> As kernel says:
>> # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
>> present:                 yes
>> capacity state:          ok
>> charging state:          discharging
>> present rate:            1212 mA
>> remaining capacity:      262 mAh
>> present voltage:         13759 mV
> 
>>From real life experience, trusting these numbers is dangerous.
> 
Maybe, but 16W to 1.2W is way too big difference to ignore it.

> 
> Do;
> 
> lshal | grep battery.reporting.rate
> 
> Then it's normalised and made a little more sane.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 

# lshal | grep battery.reporting.rate
   battery.reporting.rate = 1018  (0x3fa)  (int)

Martin