[ltp] X61 power consumption

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:04:52 +0100


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 14:26:29 +0100, Michael Karcher wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 27.11.2008, 13:00 +0100 schrieb Tino Keitel:
> > > could you please elaborate on how to do it?
> > I think that this should be possible with setpci for each device, at
> > least for a quick test if it actually can save some power.
> Yes, that is what I did.

I disabled 2x EHCI, audio, firewire and the SD reader using setpci. No
gain here on my X61s. Still around 9,3 Watts in X.

Regards,
Tino