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  • What are your favorite battery saving tweaks on Solus?

Use my Chromebook as much as possible....... runs and hides!!!!!

Mayeut What do you mean? Are you installing the correct version of bbswitch for the kernel version you are running? There is a bbswitch for the stable kernel and a bbswitch-current for the current kernel.

    16 days later

    Hello fellows, I recently discovered the tlp package, it's available on eopkg. A coworker - which uses it on Ubuntu - and I managed to gain several hours on battery life. We both have a Asus laptops with 8th gen Intel Core i5/7. The biggest difference in is Suspend mode when I close the lid, the battery is dramatically less drained than before.

    Mayeut Interesting i'm running it on an older XPS 14 l421X and I'm getting 6.5 hours fully charged on Solus Budgie using powertop.

      I use a combo of TLP and PowerTop. TLP to enable some power saving features like disabling turbo-boost on battery and powertop for some general and easy tuning and diag.

        a month later

        Hello !
        I just discovered this post.
        I have a recent Asus 8th gen CPU and the autonomy is not good. 10hours on Windows 10 and less than 5h on Solus. I've tried to use powertop --auto-tune but i got "modeprobe cpufreq_stats failedLoaded" issue. I discovered that the cpufreq_stats is no longer a kernel module but built-in to the kernel (I'm running kernel 5.0 since a recent update). Powertop should not use modprobe but i don't know how to tell it.
        bbswitch seems to be a good solution, but i would like to keep my nvidia card working if possible. Can we easily switch between intel and nvidia GPU ?
        I have heard some things about TLP, like it could break the system, is that true or it's overacting?

        Since few years i start to use Linux, Solus is by far the best distro i've ever use. The battery management is the only big problem that i have for now.

          I'm running Solus Gnome, and i installed i3wm along gnome, most of the time i'm using i3.

          4 days later

          alecbcs sorry to revive this post but I've followed what you suggested to set up bbswitch however i cannot manage to unload the nvidia drivers and the card just keeps running after boot. So bbswitch is just not working atm. Any advice?

              6 days later

              TophC7 no worries! Posts that keep on living are the best! If you have the kernel parameter nouveau/nvidia.modeset=0 in your configuration I would try removing that as sometimes the kernel disables the drivers and bbswtich gets confused. If that doesn't fix it for you however, can you paste the output of your kernel parameters and bbswitch config. Also are you using the Nvidia drivers or the Nouveau drivers?

                  alecbcs well actually i got something else to work! I installed nvidia optimus manager and that's whats been working for me. I even managed to make bbswitch work as basically a side effect of that program. It even has the option for hybrid mode. Not exactly the most useful hybrid mode as i still cant figure out how to make certain apps work with the nvidia GPU but hey its there!

                      2 years later