power-profiles-daemon, the power mode settings backend in Gnome, released 0.20 today! The new release added amdgpu panel power savings which uses dedicated hardware in systems with integrated Radeon graphics to decrease panel power consumption when the system is on battery. This activates the DRM connector attribute panel_power_savings which takes a range from 0 to 4 […]
While testing the Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook, we investigated its multimedia performance, including power management.
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We reduced power consumption from the BIOS in the previous article in this series. And we’re using GNOME’s Balanced power saving mode. What else is next? Let’s try PowerTOP, software that displays data about the power use of a Linux system. What piqued our interest is that the software analyzes power issues and offers optimization […]
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