On the laptop, Mint discharges the battery 4 times faster than the seven. The Jupiter utility (for Ubuntu) for performance tuning, etc., is not installed. Can anyone know similar programs for Mint, or another way, how to solve the problem of power consumption in Linux Mint?

  • Strangely, my Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop is fine, almost like a pig consumes. - skegg

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Most likely, the manufacturer of your laptop wrote a proprietary (closed) driver for the chipset. Therefore, he knew how to slow down the cooler, reduce the frequency of the processor. Linux (Ubuntu and Mint in particular) doesn't know this, because it uses a more general, but less functional driver in terms of your chipset. And it's not a utility. So, most likely, there is no solution to your problem. It remains to hope that sometime a new driver will be released, which will fully keep the power management.

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    This is not entirely true. Different distributions come with different sets of patches on the kernel and, as a result, with different support for hardware. So in the general case, the solution is to try to find other distributions. For example, my laptop is the quietest to work with opensuse, but I do not use it because of the instability of the supplied software. - cy6erGn0m

Look for a utility called powertop - see what it says ... Also, you need to watch what you have there with the processes (see the top command) maybe someone will be eating the processor.

  • One of my friends, nemo, devoured a good half of the resources of the POWERFUL processor (Core i7) - handicraftsman

The problem with increased power consumption is known since 2.6.38, the reason most likely in the bios curve.

The recipe for Debian, perhaps in mint, the config is in a different place:

  1. Correct the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX = "pcie_aspm = force" in the / etc / default / grub file
  2. Run update-grub

Actions to perform from the root.

If this does not help, then comrade SkyFox is right.

    Put recently on the desktop Xubuntu 11.10. The UPS has a power indicator. Noticed a considerable reduction in electricity consumption. Try it, maybe help.