[ltp] powertop shows 290W usage (T61)

[Pascal Wittmann]

Micha Feigin wrote:
> For quite some time now powertop gives me a power usage of around 290W with a T61, any ideas where it went wrong and hopefully how to fix it?

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.

For details see
http://code.google.com/p/powertop/source/diff?spec=svn316&r=316&format=side&path=/trunk/powertop.c