Hello there, I've been tweaking my laptop to reduce wake ups and power consumption and so far everything has been great. Later I'll post my experience to share it with all of you but before I want to ask a question I have.
I discovered that the dcdbas driver doesn't seem to be causing wake ups but interestingly it was consuming actual power according to my trusty Kill A Watt P3 device. With the driver removed the power consumption is about 14 watts sometimes getting up to 15, but it stays in 14 most of the time. When I insert the driver back it starts to fluctuate randomly between 14 and 19 but it doesn't stay in 14 as much as before. I can reproduce this every time by simply removing or adding the driver. So, as far as I could find dcdbas is a Dell driver for controlling the SMBIOS or something like that, if someone can explain to me what it does, please do. Is this driver actually necessary? how can I blacklist it to prevent it from being loaded on every boot? Does anyone with a Dell laptop can reproduce this? But more importantly, where do I file a bug report so it gets fixed? I'm running Fedora Rawhide with the latest updates on a Dell XPS M1210 laptop. Cheers, -William _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
