[ltp] Re: powertop shows 290W usage (T61)

Micha Feigin linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:05:26 +0200


On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:14:43 -0400
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > Are you using the newest version of powertop? Because in revision 309
> > there was a bug similar to yours. It should be fixed in revision 316.
> 
> I don't know about revision numbers, but `dpkg' tells me I have version
> 1.11-1 (the "-1" is Debian's own sub-version).
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 

It's the version control numbers and it was right. I compiled a package from
the latest sources (don't remember now if they indeed were 316 or something
later) and it solved the problem.

I should probably file a bug requesting and update.