[ltp] Re: Linux-Thinkpad digest, Vol 1 #1303 - 15 msgs

[Guarded Identity]

I'll bite.

I'm thinking from the tone of your message that you might not yet know about 
www.thinkwiki.org.  It's got TONS of information and helpful instruction.  
That's the definitive starting point for Thinkpad users running GNU/Linux.  
If ThinkWiki doesn't have what you need, it can at least give you some great 
keyword phrases to Google.

Here's a short answer regarding measuring power, though.  There's a tool 
called "acpitool" that reads the /proc/acpi interface and prints out a nice 
report.  But you can always look directly at /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info.  
Also, if you are using the tp_smapi kernel module, you can get the same 
information and more from /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/.  

- Sukant


On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:35 am, Aaron Mulder 
ammulder-at-alumni.princeton.edu |LinuxThinkpad| wrote:
> Is there some kind of HOWTO on this somewhere?  I don't know how to
> measure my power usage, use lt_hotswap, configure hdd power saving,
> configure power saving for ATI driver vs. open source radeon driver,
> etc.  I've seen a lot of threads with bits and pieces but a more
> comprehensive guide would be great.
>
> Thanks,
>     Aaron
>