[ltp] Lower power consumption with upcoming 2.6.33

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:59:45 +0100


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 19:51:05 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:

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> With old kernels, the fan was spinning a bit more often IMHO.
> Meanwhile, I reinstalled from scratch to switch from i386 to amd64 and
> still got the 7,3W during a quick test.

To be more precise: with an idle Xfce desktop running and wireless
enabled, the fan does not run at all.

Regards,
Tino