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What does the package UPower output if on a desktop

On Ubuntu 12.04, if I use the command: upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 It will output all of the statistics for the battery. However, what does it output if I am using a ...
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Exynos 5 DVFS or turning off cores in Ubuntu - Scaling frequency for one of the cores only (dual core) (cpufreq)

I was wondering if there is possible to scale only one of the cpu cores in the A15 in Exynos 5 ? I have tried using e.g cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 500MHz, but both cores are set to the same frequency. When ...
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Opening lid results in black screen (Dell Laptop with ATI Graphics, Ubuntu 12.04, 3.2 kernel, GNOME 3)

For the past few weeks, when opening the lid my laptop often fails to recover from suspension leaving me with a blank screen. Further, when this bug occurs, the laptop fans continue to run while the ...
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Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Sandy Bridge CPU throttling

Intel Sandy-Bridge family i5 Core CPU, running Linux kernel 3.2 (Debian Squeeze/Wheezy), under heavy computation load, does not react to to cpufreq-set -g powersave (using acpi_cpufreq module). It is ...
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NetworkManager: disabled network when sending system to sleep

When I suspend my notebook, NetworkManager disables the wireless network (in nm-manager.c:do_sleep_wake). However, I'd love to still use the network for a very short time (to unmount cifs mounts, ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Fan overspeeding

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 leaving Win 7 licensed version. But again as usual I need to fix so many issues. This time fan is generating lots of noise. It looks it is running at max speed. My ...
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How can I get an alert when my battery is about to die in Linux Mint?

This happens to me more than I'd like to admit, but sometimes I don't notice the power getting low since it only shows up in my status bar, then the computer just quits. I'd like a big alert that ...
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Undervolting in Linux

Could you recommend me something different like Linux-PHC for undervolting in Linux? I would like to undervolt my AMD Phenom 9850 CPU. I am using Debian squeeze x64. For underclocking I use ...
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pm-utils: No network in suspend scripts?

I'd like to put a script in /etc/pm/suspend.d/ that needs network access (for a very short time) before allowing the system to suspend. However, even with scripts named "001_something" in ...
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Why kernel 3.6.2 is so much less energy efficient than 3.6.1 on Mint 13?

I noticed, that the power consumption in my ASUS P53E notebook is doubled (from 10W to 20W) when I change from kernel 3.6.1 to 3.6.2 (or later). I use Ubuntu Quantal mainline kernel from ...
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Is it possible to automatically wake from suspend?

Here's my problem: I have a laptop running Arch that I just keep on at home. It's got a good 4 hour battery life, but sometimes my daughter is playing near where it's kept and ends out pulling the ...
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How to adjust charging thresholds of laptop battery?

My laptop is Lenovo T400, and OS is Ubuntu 12.04. I have not been able to adjust the thresholds for battery starting charging and stopping charging. I observed that its current starting charging ...
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Power saving enables touchpad

I've installed power saving packages (bumblebee, laptop-mode-tools, and cpufreq) to my laptop with Debian Wheezy. Thanks to that I decrease power usage from 32W to 10W. But now I faced the issue that ...
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disk spins-down too fast

I use Ubuntu 12beta on Lenovo Z575. I noticed that the disk spins down very quickly, few seconds after the last operation. And when I am working, e.g. in the vim and write quite often, it spins-up and ...
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Linux kernel 3.3 power regression

I am using Fedora 16 in my DELL n4110. I recently upgraded the kernel from 3.2 to 3.3. In contradiction to the official claim, my system still drains battery as hell. It only provides 1:30 to 2 hrs of ...
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Battery management - are there differences between distros?

I have heard that Linux, in general, has poor notebook battery management: the battery lifetime is reduced significantly (I have noticed it on my MacBook 2.1 with Ferdora installed) Are there any ...
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on puppy linux, how to manage power settings

I'm new to using Puppy Linux, and I'm not able to find a way to manage power settings. The laptop stops working everytime I close and re-open the lid so I want to disable that function from doing ...
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CPU governor settings

What are CPU governor settings? How can I get their values, if they're set? I have 24 vCPUs on my machine.
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How to power off USB stick or MMC card under linux?

Usually I just unmount the usb stick or mmc before unplugging it but I'd prefer to turn the power off before doing so. I think Windows does this, so the hardware should allow for turning off the power ...
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Power off USB storage device/port to avoid power consumption

A connected USB storage device, even if unused (unmounted, etc.), consumes power. How can I turn it off / turn its power off so that it doesn't consume power as if it was disconnected, but without ...
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Powertop strange results

I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 and battery life decreased by 2 times. Powertop documentation says that there should be 3 wakeups per second, I have 800-900. I think it's very strange because I didn't ...
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How can I improve battery life in Fedora 15?

I am seeing a horrible battery life with Fedora 15 (lovelock) with Gnome Shell 3 on my laptop. I keep the screen brightness, back light pretty low. I still get about 1 hr 50 minutes battery life out ...
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Hardware Clock Management Framework in Linux Kernel [closed]

I asked this question on Stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6552637/hardware-clock-signals-implementation-in-linux-kernel. Maybe this is a more apt forum. I am looking at some ...
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How to properly prepare a server for power outages?

I have a personal Debian server set up, that I'm able to access in person and remotely, but normally I'm away from it and it's remote. It's on a battery-backup surge protector, but sometimes that ...
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Slow down the CPU

I tried to slow down my CPU with powernowd and cpufreq-selector. I hoped that with lower frequency it will be less hot and I won't hear my fan every time I will run internet radio. I used the ...
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How to find power draw in watts?

I've been asked to estimate the power consumption of the servers I run for my laboratory. I thought and I'd ask if there was some handy linux commandline to get the power consumption of the server. It ...
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Power management hook for running *X11* scripts on wake

Earlier I asked a similar question, but that one was about running system-level scripts. I have a script that runs a series of xinput commands in order to enable two-finger scrolling on my touchpad. ...
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Power management hook for running scripts on wake

I'm looking for a way to run an arbitrary script every time my laptop wakes up.
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How to avoid powering down certain USB devices when a machine is suspended

I'd like to maintain power supply to a USB-powered drive when the system goes into suspend (AKA S3 or "suspend-to-RAM") mode. Normally the power is cut while the machine is suspended, which causes it ...
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power management of USB-enclosed hard drives [closed]

With a typical USB hard drive enclosure, is the full range of drive power management functionality available? edit: moved this into a separate question: In what may be an unrelated matter: is it ...