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kaijday

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Registered: 2014-01-20

Posts: 21

Lenovo Battery Draining Quicker than Ubuntu

Recently installed Arch, and I've noticed that I now only get 2 and a half hours out of my battery when before I was getting 4+.

I've installed Bumblebee, maybe it's not properly saving power however?

Kai

dice

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-02-10

Posts: 413

Re: Lenovo Battery Draining Quicker than Ubuntu

You can check if your nvidia is disabled using

cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch

powertop can also give you some hints on where your power is going

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kaijday

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Registered: 2014-01-20

Posts: 21

Re: Lenovo Battery Draining Quicker than Ubuntu

I get "no file or directory found," but I know I've installed bumblebee and added permissions for my user. Any idea?

EDIT: Have bbswitch working now by reinstalling from the AUR. Now shows DISCRETE has being off, hopefully see power improvement next charge

Last edited by kaijday (2014-07-28 21:20:08)