[ltp] X61 power consumption

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:00:42 +0100


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:26:06 +0100, Damien Challet wrote:
> > I could save approximately
> > that amount on my non-IBM laptop (Fujitsu-Siemen S7110, but that doesn't
> > matter) when putting the PATA chip for the CD drive, the wlan chip
> > (Atheros), the network chip (Marvell) and the Firewire controller (O2
> > Micro) to sleep. 
> 
> could you please elaborate on how to do it?

I think that this should be possible with setpci for each device, at
least for a quick test if it actually can save some power.

Regards,
Tino