startup-0.9.8.38-alt1 According to powertop , on my laptop (Dell Latitude), the things that constantly consumed most power were: Audio codec hwC0D3: Intel Audio codec hwC0D0: IDT and powertop even has a "tunable" to mitigate this problem: "Enable Audio codec power management", which has a huge effect indeed. Can't such a setting be put into the default configuration?
powertop does this: echo 1 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
(В ответ на комментарий №0) > the things that > constantly consumed most power were: A tiny clarification: of course, that's probably not *the* most power consumption, but these things consumed more power than any other thing. (Around 5W-10W)
(In reply to comment #1) > powertop does this: > > echo 1 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save Actually, it's not a false/true parameter (as I thought). # modinfo snd_hda_intel .... parm: power_save:Automatic power-saving timeout (in second, 0 = disable). (xint) parm: power_save_controller:Reset controller in power save mode. (bool) One may consider other greater number of seconds, too, if one wants to enable power-saving...