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Powertop 2.0: Saving power under Linux

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http://mac.linux.be – Powertop, a tool for detecting power wasters under Linux, is about to make a generational jump: version 2.0 provides improved diagnostic options and a redesigned user interface. It also offers a simple, manual way of enabling numerous power-saving features that can noticeably extend the battery life of notebooks. read more (Distributions)

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Submitted by u85500 on 06/14/2011 – Made popular on 06/14/2011

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To my suprise when I ran powertop on my fresh fedora 17 install, powertop reported all tunables bad and fedora doesn't seem to have any laptop power saving features enabled by default, nor does it have any of the pm-utils power saving scripts in /usr/lib64/pm-utils/power.d or /etc/pm/power.d.

PowerTOP v2.0 Release 1 year 5 weeks ago

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PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management.

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PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management.

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The PowerTOP tool developed by Intel helps you save power. In version 2.0, it can also handle GPUs and offers advanced tracking features.

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