Re: [Powertop] Lenovo T530 battery saving

[Marc MERLIN <marc_powertop at merlins.org>]

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Mmmh, is there anyone here? Should I be sending this elsewhere?

Thanks,
Marc

On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:27:38AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> Both powertop 2.1 and now powertop 2.4 tell me my onboard laptop camera 
> is burning battery.
> This is a lenovo T530 with kernel 3.9.5.
> 
> However, I've unloaded the module and that doesn't help:
> 
> To save battery, I do:
> ifconfig eth0 down
> for i in videobuf2_core uvcvideo videodev e1000e
> do
>     rmmod $i
> done
> 
> 
> The battery reports a discharge rate of 14.5 W
> The estimated remaining time is 2 hours, 8 minutes
> 
> Summary: 681.7 wakeups/second,  2.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 19.4% CPU use
> 
> Power est.              Usage       Events/s    Category       Description
>   6.13 W     73.3%                      Device         Display backlight
>   3.08 W    100.0%                      Device         USB device: Integrated Camera (Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.)
>  71.2 mW    149.9 ms/s     240.0        Process        /usr/bin/enlightenment
>  24.0 mW    175.6 µs/s     144.5        Timer          menu_hrtimer_notify
>  12.5 mW      1.0 ms/s      75.5        kWork          od_dbs_timer
>  12.1 mW     98.3 µs/s      72.9        Process        [kworker/2:0]
> 
> 
> Yet, powertop is still showing this below which is still visible in lsusb after I unload
> uvcvideo:
> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 04f2:b2ea Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
> 
> I often have the same problem with my audio device too:
>   1.88 W    100.0%                      Device         Audio codec alsa:hwC0D0: thinkpad (Realtek)
> 
> Thankfully unloading some modules seems to fix this:
> for i in snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep; do rmmod $i; done
> 
> Any idea how I can stop the camera from sucking power since unloading the module isn't enough?
> 
> Thanks,
> Marc

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