[gnome-love] Power use Benchmarks was Re: Power management is not efficient

[Evan Foss <evanfoss gmail com>]

Hi Folks,

Does anyone have testing data for power use benchmarks between gnome
version 2.32 and gnome 3? I am debating an upgrade and I understand
gnome 3 uses the GPU more heavily.

-Evan

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Abhinav Jangda <abhijangda hotmail com> wrote:
> Hello Ritesh,
> You have two options to resolve your issue:
> 1. Run the following command as root user,
>
> echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
>
> Above command will work only if your kernel supports switchable graphics.
>
> 2. Or install Bumblebee
>
> Above steps will turn off the NVIDIA card and your battery life will be
> restored.
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:14:55 +0530
> > From: amulya349 gmail com
> > To: gnome-love gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [gnome-love] Power management is not efficient
>
> > Hi Ritesh,
> > My system configuration is Core i3, 6 GB ram nd 320 GB HDD and NVIDIA
> > 410M GPU. you asked for other config like gpu, system load and various
> > other factors. Actually I am new to linux. Could you help to how to
> > get the system load, gpu driver details and what are the other factors
> > which are helpful?
> >
> > > On 12/01/2014, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Insufficient data for meaningful answer. Your system configuration ( gpu
> > > driver), system load, and various other factors come into play.
> > >
> > > - ritz
> > > On 12 Jan 2014 12:18, "Amulya Sahoo" <amulya349 gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello, I am using Kali linux x64 on my laptop. I found that its power
> > > > management is not so efficient as compared to windows 7. In windows, I
> > > > get
> > > > 3 hours of backup while in Kali, i get only 2 hours. Is there any way
> > > > to
> > > > solve this problem. I think, Kali uses GNOME for the GUI and this
> > > > problm
> > > > may be that of GUI. Thats why I posted here. I possible, I want to work
> > > > on
> > > > it to solve this issue. Need help for this.
> > > >
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