Re: Power usage in Dell XPS 17

2024-01-30 Thread Mike Larkin
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:02:37PM -0500, Jag Talon wrote: > Ah yes that's exactly my experience it looks like it might be the GPU at > fault. Good to know I wasn't the only one experiencing this. > > Do people know if there's a way to somehow turn off the GPU outside of BIOS? > Perhaps there's no

Re: Power usage in Dell XPS 17

2024-01-30 Thread Jag Talon
Ah yes that's exactly my experience it looks like it might be the GPU at fault. Good to know I wasn't the only one experiencing this. Do people know if there's a way to somehow turn off the GPU outside of BIOS? Perhaps there's no way around that? On 1/30/24 11:54, Benjamin Stürz wrote: I ha

Re: Power usage in Dell XPS 17

2024-01-30 Thread Benjamin Stürz
On 30.01.24 15:40, Jag Talon wrote: Unfortunately nothing about disabling a GPU in BIOS. I see everything else like Thunderbolt, fingerprint reader, microphone, etc. but no GPU. I'll keep looking and I'll check online as well perhaps I missed it! I had the same issue with my TUXEDO Polaris 1

Re: Power usage in Dell XPS 17

2024-01-30 Thread Jag Talon
Unfortunately nothing about disabling a GPU in BIOS. I see everything else like Thunderbolt, fingerprint reader, microphone, etc. but no GPU. I'll keep looking and I'll check online as well perhaps I missed it! On 1/30/24 09:00, Dave Voutila wrote: Can you disable that in the uefi/bios setting

Re: Power usage in Dell XPS 17

2024-01-30 Thread Dave Voutila
Jag Talon writes: > I was wondering if I could get help with reducing power consumption on > my laptop. > > I have a Dell XPS 17 9700 that's newly running 7.4 (dmesg in > attachment) and previously it was running Fedora. Real-world usage > seems to have gone from 4 hrs to about 40 mins so I was

Re: Power usage in Dell XPS 17

2024-01-30 Thread Jag Talon
Yes I've tried that as well it doesn't seem to have an effect. On 1/30/24 08:25, Louis Brauer wrote: * I've tried using `apm -A`, `apm -L`, and `obsdfreqd` but any improvement seems small. Did you stop and disable apmd when using obsdfreqd? That did the trick for me. Louis -- Jag Talon ht

Re: Power usage in Dell XPS 17

2024-01-30 Thread Louis Brauer
> * I've tried using `apm -A`, `apm -L`, and `obsdfreqd` but any > improvement seems small. Did you stop and disable apmd when using obsdfreqd? That did the trick for me. Louis