Power consumption with Fedora

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On 1 December 2014 at 19:57, john.tiger wrote:
> Obviously priority is now on F21 bugs but looking beyond that
>
> I want to work with someone more knowledgeable on power consumption - it
> stinks on Fedora 20.
>
> OSX on mac air gets 11-12 hrs  Fedora gets 4
> Chrome OS on Chromebook gets 9-10  Fedora gets about 6
>
> Tried powertop - see slight improvement.
>
> Guys at ARCH claim with powerdown scripts they get close to 11 on Mac Air -
> that's good
>
> So we need to get the powerdown scripts to work well with Fedora.  I have no
> idea how much conversion, if any is needed for Fedora - just don't have the
> knowledge of processes, Fedora scripts, etc.  But willing to help out, test,
> etc.  (I want 11 hrs on my Mac Air !).

One related issue is suspend. It stopped working for me (on the same
machine) at around Fedora 12. Just stays on the black screen on
resume.
Not that I need the feature often, but there might be people who do.
Is suspend supposed to work under normal circumstances?

Orcan