Laptop Mode Tools 1.66
Posted on September 27, 2014
(Last modified on November 12, 2014)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I am pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools at version 1.66.
This release fixes an important bug in the way Laptop Mode Tools is invoked. Users, now when disable it in the config file, the tool will be disabled. Thanks to bendlas @github for narrowing it down. The GUI configuration tool has been improved, thanks to Juan. And there is a new power saving module for users with ATI Radeon cards.
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Laptop Mode Tools 1.65
Posted on June 18, 2014
(Last modified on November 12, 2014)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I am very pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools , at version 1.65
This release took a toll given things have been changing for me, both personally and professionally. 1.64 was released on September 1st, 2013. So it was a full 9 month period, of which a good 2-3 months were procrastination. That said, this release has some pretty good bug fixes and I urge all distribution packagers to push it to their repositories soon.
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Laptop Mode Tools 1.64
Posted on September 1, 2013
(Last modified on November 12, 2014)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I just released Laptop Mode Tools @ version 1.64. And am pleased to introduce the new graphical utility to toggle individual power saving modules in the package.
The GUI is written using the PyQT Toolkit and the options in the GUI are generated at runtime, based on the list of available power saving modules.
Apart from the GUI configuration tool, this release also includes some bug fixes:
Don’t touch USB Controller power settings.
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Power consumption on Linux 3.10
Posted on July 23, 2013
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
The power consumption on the Linux kernel 3.10 is pretty bad.
On kernel 3.10, with the follwing config, the PowerTop results are:
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# Timers subsystem
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CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT=y
CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=y
# CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC is not set
CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y
# CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is not set
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y
PowerTOP v2.0 Overview Idle stats Frequency stats Device stats Tunables
The battery reports a discharge rate of 28.0 W
The estimated remaining time is 23 minutes
Summary: 1785.5 wakeups/second, 0.
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Laptop Mode Tools - 1.61
Posted on May 17, 2012
(Last modified on January 31, 2013)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.61, has been released and will land up soon for Debian. This is the version that would be targetting Wheezy.
This release includes many bug fixes and should make power savings much better on your machines.
This is mainly a bug fix release. Some parallel module execution approach has been used which could show runtime improvements.
Changelog:
1.61 - Thu May 17 17:44:26 IST 2012
* Handle devices with persistent device naming.
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Laptop Mode Tools - 1.60
Posted on October 14, 2011
(Last modified on January 31, 2013)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello World,
I am very pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.60.
This release includes lots of bug fixes and should make power savings much better on your machines.The battery polling daemon now, more reliably, gets triggered and killed based on power states.
This release also includes 2 helper scripts to trigger suspend and hibernate, in case anyone is interested.
Given the advancements of Linux PM ( All thanks to Rafael J.
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laptop-mode-tools
Posted on February 15, 2011
(Last modified on January 31, 2013)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I just released laptop-mode-tools version 1.56.
This release adds many goodies. We now have a better calling application to rely upon, udev. The linux kernel generates many events based on conditions. udev is a framework that acts on those events and can call-in applications based on conditions. This is something I wanted to do for laptop- mode-tools.
Power State
First was power state. The power_supply subsystem can sense changes and generate events.
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