[ltp] Excessive power consumption: x220 with Fedora 15

Christos Papadopoulos linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:33:46 -0600


Powertop reports 16-17W with machine idle. Unit is X220-4286, Intel 
graphics and network. Is this normal? Any ideas how to reduce it?

BTW, everything seems to work well with F15 and I am very happy with the 
laptop.

Thanks,

Christos.