Re: ACPI Menagement

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 08 May 2012 22:46:13 +0200, ricccardo wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Ricardo. Please, post at the bottom.

> On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 17:32 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 08 May 2012 00:02:40 +0200, ricccardo wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm a newbie of Debian; I use Debian 6 with a macbook pro and I would
>> > like to improve the durability of the battery. So I installed
>> > powertop (1.11) but a message says: no ACPI power usage estimate
>> > available. How can solve this??
>> 
>> Google suggests that you have to unplug the power cord to get the
>> estimations.

Ricardo, are you running the "powertop" command whith the power cord 
removed?
 
>> > From synaptic I see I have installed only the following package:
>> > acpi; acpi-support-base; acpid.
>> > Which other packages should I install??
>> 
>> Run "acpi -V" and put here the output.

> ric@ricmbp:~$ acpi -V
> Battery 0: Discharging, 92%, 01:24:54 remaining 
> Battery 0: design capacity 4721 mAh, last full capacity 3314 mAh = 70%
> Adapter 0: off-line
> Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10
> Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10

And is the above data right? I mean, does it coincide with the battery 
information the power applet displays?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón