[ltp] Excessive power draw on T61

[onion]

My R61 with nV Quadro 140M draws about ~20W in idle. Temperature is just  
fine, I guess there's problem with nvidia drivers - they're incredibly  
buggy :((
Concerning this: I'm trying to get WSXGA+ (1680x1050) resolution with VESA  
driver on 140M - no luck :( Highest resolution I've been able to get was  
1280x1024. Is it even possible to get that resolution with VESA driver?

Peter

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:49:24 +0200, Mike Kershaw  
<dragorn@kismetwireless.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:44:35PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:50:33 -0400, Mike Kershaw wrote:
>> > 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
>>
>> Have you compared the numbers with a running Windows? I've read that
>> Intel's new Santa Rosa platform that should be used in the T61 brings
>> more performance, but also more power consumption, so it was suggested
>> to avoid such hardware if the last bit of performance isn't really
>> required.
>
> No, windows only stayed on it long enough to verify all the HW was
> running at all, and then the ntfs resize went funny so I gave up even
> pretending I'd care about dual-boot.
>
> 20W seems awfully high for a chipset rev (and one which runs
> significantly cooler in idle than my T43), compared against a T60 and
> it can get down to 9W idle.
>
> -m
>