Ubuntu
acpi package

  1. Bug #876335
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 876335

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Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox) wrote : Re: Insane power consumption on ASUS U30SD laptop

Turning the NVIDIA card off, putting the LCD backlight to minimum and and doing:

sudo -i
echo powersave > /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy
exit

I can sometimes get 14.4W for battery discharge rate but the fan still runs fast and the laptop still get hot.