PowerTOP tool released; time to fix the wasted laptop power on fedora?
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Sun May 13 21:46:27 UTC 2007
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.
> the power usage should be around 16 W. Is it a bug in the PowerTOP, or
> is it supposed to mean something different (currently it shows 1.2 W)?
Do;
lshal | grep battery.reporting.rate
Then it's normalised and made a little more sane.
Richard.
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