On Mon 21 March 2011 09:18:51 Frédéric Boiteux wrote: > As Raúl said, I don't see any power measure in this new release of > powertop (lot of added information, but need some info to understand > how to use them). How / Where can you see the power consumption ?
This information is meant to be displayed at the top line of the "Overview" tab. However, I had a closer look at the source and it seems, that this information might not be available on many (all?) systems, since powertop 1.97 only checks in the deprecated /proc/acpi/battery/ directory for consumtion information. I managed to patch powertop to use /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/, that should be available on systems with modern kernels, so that I got proper consumtion displayed on my thinkpad X201, but since that (dirty) patch might break functionality on other notebooks (especially since different units seem to be used across systems), it's not a global solution, hence not attaached :). I propose to wait for upstream to fix this. In the meantime you can use "acpitool -B" to get detailed battery status information. Best regards -- eshat cakar web: www.eshat.de gpg-id: 799B 95D5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
