[ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?

[John Matthews]

Rob Beard wrote:
> mac wrote:
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>> Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
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>>> 2009/9/8 mac <ammonius.grammaticus at gmx.co.uk>:
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>>>> Before I start messing with Powertop, has anyone got any advice,
>>>> warnings, gotcha's?
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>>> Nope. I don't think it's possible to break anything.
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>> Thanks, Jonathon, that's reassuring.  So I guess I'll try the suggested 
>> fixes for the session to see if they help, and decide whether to adopt 
>> them permanently later.
>>
>> Search results suggest that Powertop is widely used by experienced Linux 
>> devotees;  but I never came across anyone mentioning it here, though 
>> it's in the Ubuntu repos, so I wonder.  Any thoughts?
>>
>> mac
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> Interesting application.  I didn't know about it myself until you 
> mentioned it.  I've installed it and enabled a couple of it's 
> suggestions, will be interesting to see if it makes any difference 
> (although I generally run my laptop in power saving mode anyway so it's 
> generally running at 1GHz).
>
> Rob
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Hi, are there any instructions on how to use this, I Installed it, but 
have no idea about how to start it, to even look at program.

Thank you.

John.