Power history differs from ACPI estimate by factor of 2

[Jeffrey Baker]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

The power history graph in the gnome power manager does not agree with the ACPI power estimate given by Intel PowerTOP. For instance, under full load my Thinkpad X61 shows about 40W in PowerTOP but only 20W in gnome-power-manager. I am fairly sure the PowerTOP figure is the correct one.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please run the following command: gnome-power-bugreport.sh &> gpm.log ; a tarball of the /proc/acpi directory and attach them file to the bug report? Thanks in advance.

[Jeffrey Baker (jwbaker)]

Sure, glad to help. The files are attached.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 9.04?

[Jeffrey Baker (jwbaker)]

I guess we'll find out in April.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.