On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Kok, Auke<[email protected]> wrote:
> Raphael Clifford wrote:
>> I am trying to reduce the power usage of my toshiba tecra a9.  After
>> first running powertop and agreeng to all its suggestions, powertop -d
>> gives me on a mostly idle machine
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The USB device active 100% is Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0483:2016 SGS
>> Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader
>>
>> Is there any way to turn this off?
>
> Check the kernel driver/module and see if this is possible. You can also try
> manually enabling usb autosuspend for that device if you hadn't already tried 
> that.

I have the same device on a ThinkPad and hitting 'U' in powertop to
suspend it works for me.

-jwb

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