-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-08-01 09:38, Peter M wrote: > On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 4:05:51 AM UTC-6, Andrew David Wong wrote: On > 2016-07-31 17:29, Peter M wrote: >>>> Is anyone else noticing very significant increases in battery life >>>> with 3.2 as opposed to 3.1? >>>> >>>> On 3.1 I was lucky to get 1h 30 min while with 3.2 I am easily >>>> getting 3 hours. I have an Nvidia Quadro graphics card so I am >>>> guessing some improvement in the nouveau driver is helping. >>>> >>>> Anyone else want to share their battery life experiences? >>>> > > Sounds like good news. I've found powertop very handy for monitoring power > usage. Perhaps you could use it to see how many watts you're pulling > before and after? > > > > Good idea. I am assuming that I need to install PowerTop in dom0. What is > the safest way to do this? >
You can install it in the usual way: $ sudo qubes-dom0-update powertop Note, of course, that the usual warnings apply about installing and running programs in dom0. IMHO, installing and running powertop from the Fedora repo is a minimal, acceptable risk, but of course it's up to you. - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXn+EGAAoJENtN07w5UDAwV3QP/A1/LxesrYuL9Acp+/xCTZXu HT6S42sN8fZIUowJdaS+IUbvvPAzeLfnfAXpL61KfjLKCVDq6M2RiqabtsxeM6gv krn5nP6vJP1xXjiMTFuOQALDSTlei2kJOgtnlSkEO8mcxyAddi53IdfWlBre/Daz XYkl7QochsS6LpY8in3JLcz3eb2nJzxx4rxv/jaRAQN+FfITtiKVxNwns6ITJrhR YOX99MWzzzRU6+rEWuNjlTVEyizH+3XS6d4dMa/xMas+Wv6brJfT8eu1C0v36ooH FUcBSUmh9XIL2Gw6ujkmnu7lir0k0vwDcZB9gyqTkSWTHWUhbwR0/+4V9gF7rRTO ZvWEDftAfQ5esDRDlBwZD0rWETudPr7l+i2YrfO+R3NDu4Q/AengOimKYTh4QHVP W9zl/eCsFz2OvkfSRFBM41KZSlP8jQmKXsJZ/RtMEQMPDWFgMvT4yEBj/tLVa9nm bpIcANfm8UlO0pRbSOlm9DdJB3unyRII3uiL4dbR6ojaRipNQYMub8fyMcgcXit8 wowsfWL7oAm6d+1juPduRGMmqevrwrJuhlMO/CGfTaQu/6c0te1Rn3PI1MEjgeMD wPUa5tXn6xgCBtuln/7je/1R+vU9YE+vQlFt9m9XdNmAVsF6R6CkFKe5koUplIFo eYAhP53fdn3mql5ZTbeE =XPWv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/dcd2f5f4-3884-54f0-f7b3-8f6b402d66fd%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
