Trond Husø wrote: > Hi, > > First I want to present myself as a new user of the discuss list. I'm a > Ubuntu-user on a Dell d420 and got interested in power / heat problems > when I started to see how hot my Dell got. So I installed PowerTop and > when running of AC it now runs colder and even more silent. Which is > great and also what was my initial plan when installing PowerTop. > > When I am charging the battery the laptop is getting noisier and also > hotter. 73 Celcius is pretty much the top. This also means that my fans > are running on high speed which means more power consuming and also more > noise. > > Which brings me to the reason for adding myself to the list: > When I run PowerTop in AC-mode (charging mode) I get this message in > PowerTop: no ACPI power usage estimate available > > Is this because it is charging, or is this something that should be > reported as a bug of some sort. >
the ACPI estimate is only available when you're actually running on battery. This is fundamental to how this works; the battery is what measures how much you're discharging, if your charging or on AC, we don't get this measurement. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@LessWatts.org http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
