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

[Volker Krueger]

Yes, that could be one of the degrees of freedom!
BTW: I had tried it and did not get any changes in power consumption!! I
think there are some unsolved issues with the Core Duo, but I am not
up-to-date really...

axp wrote:
> Volker Krueger wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>   
>>     
> I would be interested, especially the undervolting issues would be great
> to be outlined.
>
>
> so far,
> Ferdinand
>   
>> 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
>>>     
>>>       
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