On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 15:55 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 May 2012 22:46:13 +0200, ricccardo wrote: > > > Hi, > > Hi Ricardo. Please, post at the bottom. > > > On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 17:32 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 08 May 2012 00:02:40 +0200, ricccardo wrote: > >> > >> > I'm a newbie of Debian; I use Debian 6 with a macbook pro and I would > >> > like to improve the durability of the battery. So I installed > >> > powertop (1.11) but a message says: no ACPI power usage estimate > >> > available. How can solve this?? > >> > >> Google suggests that you have to unplug the power cord to get the > >> estimations. > > Ricardo, are you running the "powertop" command whith the power cord > removed? > > >> > From synaptic I see I have installed only the following package: > >> > acpi; acpi-support-base; acpid. > >> > Which other packages should I install?? > >> > >> Run "acpi -V" and put here the output. > > > ric@ricmbp:~$ acpi -V > > Battery 0: Discharging, 92%, 01:24:54 remaining > > Battery 0: design capacity 4721 mAh, last full capacity 3314 mAh = 70% > > Adapter 0: off-line > > Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10 > > Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10 > > And is the above data right? I mean, does it coincide with the battery > information the power applet displays? > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > Hi, the information are obtained with the power chord unplugged. I notice that the result of "powertop" and "apci -V" are different.
ric@ricmbp:~$ acpi -V Battery 0: Discharging, 75%, 01:04:08 remaining Battery 0: design capacity 4851 mAh, last full capacity 3520 mAh = 72% Adapter 0: off-line Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10 ric@ricmbp:~$ sudo powertop PowerTOP 1.11 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Power usage (ACPI estimate): 315.8W (0.1 hours) The two results seems to be different. Furthermore, the battery information displayed by the power applet sometimes are divergent from the results of the "apci -V". I mean the battery indicator is red (about 4%) but "apci" says 66%..... Best Riccardo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336769878.2604.18.camel@ricmbp
