Acer C720: Is it worth to turn off unused devices?

Matthew Dillon dillon at backplane.com
Thu Dec 11 09:08:12 PST 2014


You can buy a cheap watt meter on amazon and measure whether it makes a
difference.  We've tried power savings modes for the Wifi but it didn't
have much of an impact.  The mouse pad and touch screen drivers already
have idle fallbacks which do a pretty good job.

-Matt

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Romick <yellowrabbit2010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> like put next lines in /etc/rc.local?
>
> ======================================
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Turn off video camera
> /usr/sbin/usbconfig -d 1.3 power_off
>
> # Turn off Atheros bluetooth
> /usr/sbin/usbconfig -d 1.4 power_off
> ======================================
>
> I'm still looking for saving battery.
>
> --
>   with best reagrds, Yellow Rabbit
>   DragonFly 4.1-DEVELOPMENT x86_64
>
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