On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:10:07 -0500 Mark Altern <mark.altern@gmail.com> wrote: > I do not know powertop, which I also can not find anywhere in ubuntu. Strange. Have a look here: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/powertop. Maybe it's in one of the extra repositories - I think they are called universe, multiverse and the like? Daniel