Power Consumption, please acknowledge bug-report ?? [Solved]

[enyc]

Dear All,

I have searched forum for issues about battery-usage and power-consumption when using MX19 on a laptop, I am not as-yet finding any such posts on this forum (please correct me if I have missed something!!!).

have seen many anecdotes/questions in IRC over this being a problem with MX19 as-compared to MX18.3.
I did at least get an IRC-user to report a bug, and also add to it myself. See :-
https://bugs.mxlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239

Please can we have a developer or other power-user at least put a comment on the bug (preferably mark it CONFIRMED), and give a $clue how to start debugging !!! =). If soon, this user is willing to help and would like to stay on MX19 if possible.

With thanks,

[chrispop99]

Welcome to the forum.

Please be assured that tests are being carried out on this issue behind the scenes. One problem is that no significant differences in power consumption are showing between the two versions on the hardware used for testing thus far.

Perhaps you would be kind enough to post the output of Quick System Info for the problematic machine?

Chris

[Jerry3904]

Please can we have a developer or other power-user at least put a comment on the bug (preferably mark it CONFIRMED), and give a $clue how to start debugging !!! =). If soon, this user is willing to help and would like to stay on MX19 if possible.

You posted that bug report only 2 days ago!

[Eadwine Rose]

Remember that MX is driven by a very small number of people who also have lives and such :)

[dolphin_oracle]

well we did put the full power of the MX Linux laboratories into full operation. Everyone went full bore to figure this one out.



Jokes aside, I posted our (non)exhaustive tests up on the bugzilla this morning. basically we got nothing. and despite certain information from outside sources that tlp isn't working, we are pretty sure that it is.

I know my thinkpad is about the same on mx19 vs. mx18. that's not saying much, its old old.

there are a few things that may affect results.

1. new firmware means more bits and pieces are working now that were working on mx17/18. this is particularly true of the bluetooth hardware set, which could be a big draw.

2. more services are running on mx19 than on mx18. some bluetooth related, some not.

3. I have no idea if any of the mitigation patches in the 4.19 kernel are affecting anything, but its possible that for the same work the machines have to work harder to accomplish the same tasks.

All that is a wild guess but you get the idea.

So I'm asking the rest of the MX community...that if the community can do a little diagnosing of this issue, then maybe more can be uncovered in this area. Particularly if any of you have encountered this problem and if you were able to fix it.

[Stevo]

The user can also try removing tlp, a different kernel, or installing powertop and using it to tune the power consumption.