On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 20:35 -0500, Norman Carver wrote: > I changed > it to runlevel 3 since I won't be using the GUI typically. > I had assumed this might reduce power usage a bit > more, but surprisingly it caused the power draw to go UP > by about 3 watts!
You could check with powertop. If you're measuring (e.g. via ssh from another system) when the system is inactive, it might be that the video driver for X turns the video card into a power-saving mode when it's idle, and the console driver isn't doing that. Are you including the display in your measurement? How exactly are you measuring? -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
