I only see powertop number of gives wakeup interrupt per 15 seconds.
Also, acpi command gives percentage of batter left.

How do you see power watt?

--- On Wed, 6/24/09, Simon <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Simon <[email protected]>
> Subject: ACPI power usage estimates
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 3:17 PM
> Hi there,
>    i just discovered powertop and i love
> it!  However, i'm not getting
> consistent feedback about ACPI power usage...  from
> looking at it, i
> guess i first have to wait at least 5 minutes to get it to
> start
> working, but it doesnt work.
> 
>   Well, it does, i've seen it say sometimes i use 0.1
> watt (when
> really really idle) and that i have like 8 hours left of
> battery, i
> even tried lowering the laptop backlight at that moment and
> usage went
> to 0.0 watt with 14 hours left.  I'm pretty sure the
> estimate is
> wrong, i never seen my laptop on battery for more than 3-4
> hours (i
> once wrote a script that would echo `date` > somefile
> every minute or
> so and the pc was really idle other than that, power was
> lost after
> around 4 hours.
> 
>   In any case, i'm sure when the estimate will say i
> have only a few
> minutes left, that it will be close to the truth!
> 
>   The problem i'm experiencing is i've seen this
> estimate a few times
> only and it stopped showing for unknown reason.  It is
> stuck on "no
> ACPI power usage estimate available"...
> 
> However, ACPI does report information about it:
> # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> present:             
>    yes
> capacity state:          ok
> charging state:         
> discharging
> present rate:           
> unknown
> remaining capacity:      50 mAh
> present voltage:         7452
> mV
> #
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks, Simon
> 
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