[ltp] Lower power consumption with upcoming 2.6.33

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:51:05 +0100


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:26:51 +1030, Andrew Mason wrote:

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> Wow thats good to know. Will try it out tonight, I wonder if it will
> also stop my fan from spinning up for no reason.

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.

Regards,
Tino