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
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