So i have gotten a t490 just recently, and ive installed fedora on it, gnome power profiles daemon said it was “on my lap” and wouldn’t let me change the power profiles even when on a desk. So i masked that, and installed auto-cpufreq, but the laptop still draws about 10W (according to powertop) when watching a youtube video, leading to 4-5 hours of battery life.

any tips on how to reduce the power consumption?

  • BlisterexeOP
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    10 months ago
    1. Yeah I haven’t checked that yet, but I agree with the other guy that 6 hours seems like a reasonable battery life
    2. No it’s just Intel integrated graphics, and ajto-cpufreq seems to be working great, it’s just the deafult one that didn’t for some reason.
    3. Thank you!