tetsujin29 Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Hi, I am running Mandriva Spring 2008 on an intel celeron G2.2hz computer. After setting up and using Mandriva for about a month now, I noticed that my electric bill this month doubled to 70$!! I don't have any other new electronics except for this computer running Mandriva, so this is probably the problem. Is it likely for this to happen ? (i.e. maybe the electrician read the meter wrong, even though he INSISTED that he didn't...) Can someone give me an idea of the normal computer electricity consumption as compared to say, a LCD TV or a xbox 360 system? I didn't set up powersave (and mandriva doesn't automatically put the CPU to powersave) so if I don't shut down the computer the CPU just runs (sometimes overnight when I have downloads). How do I set up powersave in Mandriva? I coulnd't find it in KDE manager. .. Thanks very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 On my system there was an icon on the bottom right of the taskbar (I have removed KPowerSave do to a Suspend problem). It should look like a plug or battery. If you click on it you can configure KPowerSave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Which kernel version are you running? (Type 'uname -r' in the konsole/terminal) At least with 'laptop' kernel versions you should have the powersave options available by default. I know, because for some reason Mandriva has for some time detected my desktop as a laptop (most likely because I had a wlan PCI card installed). But honestly, I very much doubt that the reason for your doubled electricity bill is the laptop... You should be looking somewhere else for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 On your desktop, right click your mouse. Choose "configure desktop". Click on "display". The far right tab is "Power control". You can set up some things there, although I don't know if that is what you're looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 I agree with dude67 that unless you use *very* little electricity, it's almost impossible for a single computer to double your usage no matter how inefficiently it's run. A typical desktop PC will consume 200W or so of power, maybe 300. A typical laptop will consume less than 100W. Even if it never does any power saving and consumes the maximum amount *all the time*, that's a lot less than half a typical person's power budget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsujin29 Posted September 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Thanks for the replies. The only explanation left is that the electric company made a mistake in reading the meter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsujin29 Posted September 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Okay, now a new problem - when I use powersave to put the machine to sleep and then when I bring it back up the screen won't stop flickering! Is this a power management issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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