[ltp] HPET timer on thinkpads?

[Damien Challet]

On Tuesday 23 October 2007 14.23:55 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Tue 23 Oct 2007, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > Wow, I get slightly under 10W on a completly idle system on my T23.
>
> Apologies for what is probably a very ignorant question,
> but how do you find the power consumption on an idle or sleeping machine?

first of all, you need to unplug the ac adaptor

then either with powertop or cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state