[ltp] Re: external DIGITAL monitor with ubuntu and intel i950 graphics

[Volker Krueger]

Hi Christoph,

good point!

But what is strange is that even with a stopped HD in my X200s, I cannot
reach below 8 W with the reasonably good "working conditions" outlined
by Ferdinand.
There must be more to it. The X301 seems to have a UL9400 processor
which has slightly less power than the SL9400 but which also uses 10W
instead of 17W peak consumption. Perhaps that could also make a
difference, not sure...

If there are more people interested, we could start to generate some
statistic about the different settings people use and their effects.
It would probably make sense to limit those considerations only to
X200,X200s,X30x series or else we would not get a good statistic out...

who of the X200,X200s/X30x users would be interested?

best,
Volker



Christoph Bier wrote:
> axp schrieb:
>> Hi Volker,
>>
>> Volker Krueger wrote:
>>> HI Ferdinand,
>>>
>>>
>>> I can get down to 6.7W if I turn off the wireless, the HD, the fan and
>>> the monitor to the lowest illumination possible. If that is the case, I
>>> know even a trick to get it to use 0 Watts :-))
>>>   
>> i get ~6W for almost idle, Wlan still on, backlight at half, reading
>> things in the browser without too much interrupt generation by the inout
>> devices.
>>
>> i get ~7W for a fully (for my case) working setup, wlan on, lot's of
>> typing (vim latexsuite), turned of anything else (no Bluetooth, no 3g
>> [this thing needs a lot of power], Wlan set to powersave mode) display
>> reduced to 3/4 of the maximum brightness.
>>
>> Machine: x301, led backlight, SSD HDD, intel iwl5300agn.
>
> That's it! It has an SSD and a very low voltage CPU but the X200s has
> only a low voltage CPU (and additionally higher frequencies).
>
> Best
> Christoph