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* [[How to hotswap UltraBay devices|Eject the UltraBay optical drive]], or just turn off its power supply (i.e., run the appropriate eject script but leave the drive inserted). | * [[How to hotswap UltraBay devices|Eject the UltraBay optical drive]], or just turn off its power supply (i.e., run the appropriate eject script but leave the drive inserted). | ||
| + | * [[How to set optical drive speed|Reduce the spinning speed of the optical drive]]. | ||
===System fan=== | ===System fan=== | ||
Revision as of 07:39, 17 August 2006
Reducing system power consumption will extend battery life, reduce system temperature and (on some models) reduce system fan noise. This page summarizes the known techniques for reducing power consumption on ThinkPad laptops under Linux. The power numbers given (in Watt) are very rough and model-specific.
Contents
System power states
CPU
Graphics
- How to make use of Graphics Chips Power Management features
- Problem with high power drain in ACPI sleep
- Rovclock
- Reduce LCD brightness (~1-4W difference)
- Disable CRT output (~0.5W difference)
Hard disk
Spinning down the disk saves about 1W.
Optical drive
The optical drive consumes about 1W even when not accessed.
- Eject the UltraBay optical drive, or just turn off its power supply (i.e., run the appropriate eject script but leave the drive inserted).
- Reduce the spinning speed of the optical drive.
System fan
Consumes about 0.5W when running.
Wireless network
Consumes up to ~4W.
- Activate power saving on the wireless network card
- For Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Mini-PCI Adapter and Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Mini-PCI Adapter, see instructions for the ipw2200 driver.
Related toptics
External resources
- Power Management Guide from the Gentoo Linux documentation
- When/where/what for low power consumption? (thread on Linux-Thinkpad)
