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Voltage Situation

I have recently installed an AMD video card to my hardware setup, and I'm getting this when I run the sensors command: coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +62.0°C (high = +76.0°C, ...
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How to prevent CPU governor from changing automatically on laptop power?

I noticed when I plug-in or unplug my laptop's AC adapter, the CPU scaling governor changes to ondemand. Because my laptop gets fairly hot, and I do nothing intensive on it, I prefer powersave at all ...
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Xubuntu fails to stay awake when the machine is under load

I have the following problem with a fresh install of Xubuntu 12.04: I set up power management options so as to send the machine to sleep after it's been idle for a while. My intention was to have it ...
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Is There A Way To Measure Total Battery Discharge Time?

Can this be done with multiple sessions even if over a matter of days? This function does not appear to be available in XFCE Power Manager. If you have not already guessed, this question regards ...
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Is Xubuntu as power-efficient as Ubuntu?

I'm wondering if Xubuntu has the same features as Ubuntu 12.04 Particularly I'm trying to get the most battery life out of my laptop. Does Xubuntu 12.04 feature the same improvements to power ...
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xubuntu 12.04 restarts after suspend - only from my account

After installing a clean xubuntu 12.04 I noticed that when I suspend, the computer suspends and turns itself off (you see the lights go off, and a click sound from the HD or fans), but then about 2 ...
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Brightness level is not restored back after some idle time when using fglrx

I have a laptop powered by fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 with XFCE. Before I have used a default opensource ATI driver. For several days I have been using fglrx. After some time of inactivity ...
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ATI radeon mobility 3650 overheats and shuts down computer in Xubuntu and not Windows. Why?

I have recently installed Xubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows Vista on my Acer Aspire 6920G laptop. I installed the latest proprietary fglrx drivers for the ATI radeon mobility 3650. In Xubuntu I felt ...
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xfce4-power-manager keeps restarting after suspend

In a clean install of Xubuntu 12.04, the xfce4-power-manager keeps restarting after suspend. If i quit the program and restart it, it keeps restarting. If i quit the program and restartit a few ...
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When plugged in my laptop's CPU load gets higher

When I plug in my laptop (Asus EEE pc with brazos) it can't play a movie without lagging. When I unplug my laptop from the power socket, the lag goes away. I'm a bit baffled by this because I ...
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will using xubuntu decrease my power usage?

I am battling with the absurd power usage of ubuntu 11.04. On windows 7 (which came preinstalled) I can get around 4:30 hours turning everything off (wifi, bluetooth, lowest brightness for screen) ...
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In terms of battery usage, which distro is more efficient between Lubuntu and Xubuntu?

Installing both on the same laptop without doing nothing more than the normal install, which one consumes less battery power at the end and makes the laptop last a little bit longer than the other, ...
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How to save power on a Xubuntu server?

I installed Xubuntu 11.04 AMD64 on an 'old' PC I have lying around. I quite like how Xfce has come along, but alas, this box will become headless shortly. Specs: Gigabyte P35-DS3P Intel E8200 @ ...
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Power Management - Sleep / Wake up Server when accessed

I have a headless HP Proliant Microserver with ubuntu installed. This machine has samba shares on it serving media and I usually rdp or ssh into it. Now my issue is I want the machine to go into sleep ...