[ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?

[Rob Beard]

John Matthews wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>> 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?
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>>> 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).
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>> 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.
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> Thank you.
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> John.
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I just ran the command

sudo powertop

 from a terminal window.

Rob