On Thursday 07 February 2008 20:24, hiro wrote: > Hey guys, > I saw, that there were a lot of new power saving features in 2.6.24 > and so i've tried to build an optimized kernel. > Could someone look at my results, please? > http://x60s.blogspot.com/2008/02/results.html
> On Windows i managed to cut power down to 7W. > On Linux the results were very poor Power usage (ACPI estimate): 9.7W (6.9 hours) C3 218.7ms (100.0%) You're not going to save any more power by trying to extend C3 from 218ms to something longer. Probably Windows is turning off some harware that Linux is too dumb to turn off. First guess is the wireless card. If you're feeling adventurous, go ahead an physically remove it and do another comparison. BTW. how did you mesure the 7W on Windows, and what version of Windows? cheers, -Len _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
