[ltp] Excessive power draw on T61

[Mike Kershaw]

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:57:14PM +0200, Gilson Laurent wrote:
> Hello,
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> > I've been trying to figure out what is causing high power consumption on
> > a T61 with nvidia card:  Idle, in console or X, it draws approximately
> > 20W..  The lowest I've seen it go is 17W.=20
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> At ~20W the system should be hot and/or the fan should be running all the=
 time. Are you sure the 20W readout is correct? What runtimes do you get on=
 batteries ?

About 2.5 hours.  System reports 105F/120F at idle for CPU/GPU, fan is
off, not warm to the touch. =20

Powertop and ACPI agree on the idle draw, and my battery life seems to
be about what they predict - I get 2, 2.5 hours on a 5.2AH extended
battery.

-m

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