I have always used newest NVIDIA's own drivers, so that will not help me.
On 03/09/10 09:40, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: > I had a similar issue running a Lenovo T61 with an NVIDIA GPU and using the > nouveau driver. The GPU was running at full speed and drained my battery. I > switched to NVidias own driver and voila power usage dropped from 30W to 17W > during normal load, less when idleing. > > I made a note of it on Smolts wiki for Nvidia cards. > > OS: Updated Fedora 12 using Gnome > Driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run > > //Cheers > Henrik > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Arjan van de Ven > Sent: den 8 mars 2010 19:08 > To: Konnor Jean > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Extreme case of powerdrain > > \> Computer is running on minimal power, with most elements enabled (eg: > >> expresscard, dimmed screen, no usb devices, disk in low-power mode, >> audio in power-saving mode). Fans are idling, laptop is reasonably cool. >> >> > wonder if your GPU just burning power like crazy though > > _______________________________________________ > Power mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power > > _______________________________________________ > Power mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power > _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
