Talk:Idle consumptions
How did you measure? - I just checked the value after 2 minutes in idle. Any better ideas? Maybe a script with min/avg/max values over a time period?
Defiant 13:02, 28 April 2007 (CEST) --
I observed the power_now "counter" provided by tp_smapi over a short period of time (30 seconds, maybe?)
I do it with cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT[whatever it is]/state