Re: Cannot shutdown power use from built in webcam in thinkpad T530 questions]

[Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:21:23AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > Understood, just making sure this was still potentially useful considering
> > what I found out since my last message.
> 
> Which version of powertop are you actually using? None of current

The latest, i.e. 2.4.

> versions would show you Watt usage for devices.

Sure it does :)

Summary: 3182.2 wakeups/second,  82.5 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 33.5%

Power est.              Usage       Events/s    Category       Description
  9.82 W    100.0%                      Device         USB device: Yubico Yubike
  2.67 W      4.1 ms/s      43.2        Process        /usr/bin/pulseaudio --sta
  2.58 W    100.0%                      Device         USB device: Integrated Ca
  2.35 W    100.0%                      Device         USB device: BCM20702A0 (B
  2.32 W     32.9%                      Device         Display backlight
  1.39 W    100.0%                      Device         Radio device: btusb
  343 mW    100.0%                      Device         Radio device: thinkpad_ac

Now, I've found those values to be often wrong or questionable.

> you can use "watch grep . *" instead and check fallowing fields:
> runtime_suspended_time - suspend time. If it is growing device is suspended
> runtime_active_kids - if not zero, some program use it
> control - if "on" then autosuspend is disabled.

Understood.

Thanks,
Marc
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