[ltp] HPET timer on thinkpads?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Tue 23 Oct 2007, Damien Challet wrote:

> > 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

Sorry, but how do you do this on a sleeping machine?
As for an idle machine, what exactly do you mean by "idle"?
Doesn't the "grep" stop it being idle?