[ltp] Increased Power Consumption with Fedora 14

[Robert Tomsick]

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 12:11 -0600, Chris Schumann wrote:
> I have a ThinkPad T400. I was running Fedora 12. I formatted the 
> partition and installed Fedora 14.
> 
> My power consumption as measured by powertop went from about 17W to 
> about 27W after using all of powertop's suggestions, as follows. The 
> machine starts at 32.3W.
> 
> - increase writeback time
> - enable USB suspend
> - turn on HD audio powersave
> - disable bluetooth
> - enable wireless power saving
> - enable runtime power management
> - SATA power save
> 
> The it continually shows these two:
> hwC0D1 Conexant 2c06
> hwC0D0 Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)
> are busy 100.0% of the time.
> 
> What can I do to save power and get back to my former (or better) power 
> levels?

Just a guess, do you have a modem/WWAN card that's enabled in the BIOS?
If so, try disabling it.

Cheers,
Rob