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No actual Effects #2
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Thank you for opening this issue. If you don't notice any change so I recommend you to install beside Boost Changer TLP. You don't need to configure TLP because Boost Changer will do this job for you. I already mentioned that in README.md. "This is just a GUI application and it is not meant to replace TLP, powertop or any other power management / energy consumption service. It is meant just to provide quick access to sysfs settings related to Intel Processors and in fact it can run on top of TLP." |
Please try to install powerstat tool. sudo powerstat -d 2 You have to wait until finish calculating all used Watts and please put the result here. |
Extremely sorry for the delayed reply. this is the output for the command
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Oh!! 18.06 Watts! this is more than normal. Did you opened beside this any other processes? |
Thank you for providing me this infos. I have the same laptop with the same Graphic card. I think your Nvidia is not correctly installed and you are using 5.4.x Kernel and this Kernel is consuming a lot of battery, I do not why. |
I wanted to buy a Macbook just because of the bad battery life that I had! since my first day in linux, i suffered from NVIDIA all along without even knowing that NVIDIA was the reason behind it. I will forsure use Manjaro if the issue is not NVIDIA related. before using Manjaro, i will just test your hypothesis.
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Ok. Try to make the test again after deleting NVIDIA driver and please put the result here. 3- Yes, I have a dual screen and it works perfect on Intel and NVIDIA I prefer Manjaro for NVIDIA because there is a huge team in ARCH and Manjaro to make NVIDIA works out of the box on both. And don't worry the setup of NVIDIA on Manjaro is very very easy. |
Test 1
Test 2: BoostChanger was off until this time
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Could you switch to Kernel 5.10.X? and test again? |
Excuse my clumsiness but i have never done that before. all that i reached was trying to install it via apt (Debian package manager).
These are the results after installing 5.10 Test 1:
Test 2
Test 3: Powertop, it gives an error after some time (although it never does that in 5.4.X) |
I am in the middle of picking a cross road and i hope that you give me your opinion. Both battery life & dual screen
In case of 2 & 3 i do not know how to proceed as i always face bugs and i always depend on the GUI to automate it. Sorry if the extended question, but i was willing to buy a Mac just because of these bugs (to save me time) but you gave me hope back into the battery life thing. |
Guess what i found, Nouveau tries to make Nvidia work so Nvidia still consumes power, so much less in comparison with Nvidia drivers but it does. I want to totally black list it so that i can opt the maximum of my battery but i still dis not know how yet. |
Sorry I was very busy. Give Manjaro KDE a try .. With KDE you will get everything you want. As I said before, I have the same Laptop and I am using Manjaro KDE and everything is working perfect. |
I am using the program since it was hosted on github and i did not notice any change in CPU performance nor in battery life time. i am not using anything more than a single tab in google chrome, and a mail agent.
This is my setup for boostChanger:
Battery Estimated Life Time:
the effect should double the actual battery normal life time (2 hours) but the same normal life time persisted.
Operating System
OS Name: Elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera (Based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)
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