Hey guys, i'm new to the Linux world. I said goodbye to windows few days ago and installed Linux mint 20. But linux mint is draining my battery more than twice to what it used to be in case of windows. I tried TLP, powertop, Slimbookbattery but none of them were useful.
Overview:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 14.1 W
The power consumed was 0.00 J
The estimated remaining time is 0 hours, 10 minutes
Summary: 1634.1 wakeups/second, 0.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 26.3% CPU use
Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description
10.4 W 1.5% Device Display backlight
200 mW 0.0 pkts/s Device Network interface: wlo1 (iwlwifi)
39.1 mW 100.0% Device Radio device: hp-wmi
9.97 mW 23.0 ms/s 91.0 Process [PID 12376] /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
8.17 mW 20.7 ms/s 2.9 Process [PID 966] /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
7.66 mW 10.1 ms/s 370.8 Interrupt PS/2 Touchpad / Keyboard / Mouse
6.42 mW 7.8 ms/s 335.9 Timer tick_sched_timer
6.41 mW 16.3 ms/s 0.00 Timer hrtimer_wakeup
5.76 mW 11.6 ms/s 118.1 Process [PID 1020] /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
5.52 mW 14.0 ms/s 1.0 Process [PID 12397] /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
5.48 mW 10.0 ms/s 153.9 Process [PID 11076] powertop
5.39 mW 13.6 ms/s 2.9 Process [PID 12453] /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
5.37 mW 9.6 ms/s 157.8 Process [PID 2086] powertop
5.34 mW 9.8 ms/s 149.1 Process [PID 7481] powertop
4.64 mW 11.6 ms/s 7.7 Process [PID 446] /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
4.41 mW 10.2 ms/s 37.8 Process [PID 1560] cinnamon --replace
4.00 mW 10.1 ms/s 3.9 Interrupt [7] sched(softirq)
3.64 mW 9.2 ms/s 1.0 Process [PID 12452] /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
3.20 mW 8.1 ms/s 1.0 Process [PID 12454] /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
3.06 mW 7.0 ms/s 31.9 Process [PID 12422] powertop
2.62 mW 6.6 ms/s 1.0 Process [PID 12456] /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
2.59 mW 6.5 ms/s 1.9 Process [PID 12455] /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
2.17 mW 5.5 ms/s 1.9 Process [PID 1] /sbin/init splash
1.78 mW 4.5 ms/s 1.0 Process [PID 12457] /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
1.72 mW 4.4 ms/s 0.00 Interrupt [1] timer(softirq)
1.51 mW 3.8 ms/s 0.00 Process [PID 759] /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
1.18 mW 2.8 ms/s 6.8 Process [PID 12289] nm-dispatcher
1.12 mW 2.8 ms/s 0.00 Interrupt [9] RCU(softirq)
Device Stats:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 16.7 W
The power consumed was 283 J
System baseline power is estimated at 11.2 W
Power est. Usage Device name
4.39 W 1.5% Display backlight
4.39 W 0.0% Display backlight
1.63 W 60.7% CPU core
615 mW 60.7% CPU misc
100 mW 100.0% Radio device: iwlwifi
39.1 mW 100.0% Radio device: hp-wmi
0 mW 0.0% USB device: EHCI Host Controller
0 mW 0.0 pkts/s Network interface: wlo1 (iwlwifi)
0 mW 0.0% Audio codec hwC0D0: IDT
0 mW 0.0% USB device: HP HD Webcam [Fixed] (Primax Electronics Ltd.)
0 mW 0.0% USB device: usb-device-8087-0024
0 mW 0.0% USB device: EHCI Host Controller
0 mW 0.0% Audio codec hwC0D1: LSI
0 mW 0.0% Radio device: hp-wmi
0 mW 0.0% Audio codec hwC0D3: Intel
0 mW 0.0% USB device: usb-device-8087-0024
0 mW 0.0% USB device: usb-device-138a-003c
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4
100.0% PCI Device: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port Mobile SATA AHCI Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation QM67 Express Chipset LPC Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
100.0% PCI Device: JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3
0.0% runtime-reg-dummy
0.0% runtime-PNP0C0D:00
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How do you choose the bios? I went to the hp website and it detected my os linux. But the BIOS showing up were released on Mar 15, 2011. Which is actually older than my current bios.
The battery reports a discharge rate of 14.1 W
The power consumed was 0.00 J
The estimated remaining time is 0 hours, 10 minutes
Summary: 1634.1 wakeups/second, 0.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 26.3% CPU use
0D:00
Intel Core i5-2540M is 35 W TDP processor with max 3.30 GHz turbo booste frequency. Inxi reported max 800 MHz. That is strange. Chech settings in BIOS.
Powertop reported discharge rate of 14.1 W at 26.3 % CPU use. For computer with 35 W CPU this seems to me quite normal.
TJ101 wrote: ⤴Thu Jul 30, 2020 5:05 am
How do you choose the bios? I went to the hp website and it detected my os linux. But the BIOS showing up were released on Mar 15, 2011. Which is actually older than my current bios.
When I had to flash the BIOS on a EliteBook 840 G1 I just chose to download the BIOS for another OS (e.g. Windows 7 64 bit) which was more recent.
At least for my EliteBook it's possible to flash the BIOS from within the BIOS setup itself. So this might be true for yours as well.
Required files and directory structure were indicated by the BIOS setup flash utility.
So I just extracted the contents of the BIOS download and then copied the files to a USB flash drive as required.
The battery reports a discharge rate of 14.1 W
The power consumed was 0.00 J
The estimated remaining time is 0 hours, 10 minutes
Summary: 1634.1 wakeups/second, 0.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 26.3% CPU use
0D:00
Intel Core i5-2540M is 35 W TDP processor with max 3.30 GHz turbo booste frequency. Inxi reported max 800 MHz. That is strange. Chech settings in BIOS.
Powertop reported discharge rate of 14.1 W at 26.3 % CPU use. For computer with 35 W CPU this seems to me quite normal.
2. Backup your documents etc., and then install Windows 10 with that DVD (thus wiping your Linux Mint);
3. Apply the BIOS update;
4. Re-install Linux Mint.
Personally I'd do it (if it doesn't help for your current problem: a newer BIOS is always nice), but of course it's up to you to determine whether it's worth your while.
Pjotr wrote: ⤴Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:24 am
If you can't update in the BIOS itself, and if you no longer have Windows on that machine: there is a way, but it will cost you some hours:
2. Backup your documents etc., and then install Windows 10 with that DVD (thus wiping your Linux Mint);
3. Apply the BIOS update;
4. Re-install Linux Mint.
Personally I'd do it (if it doesn't help for your current problem: a newer BIOS is always nice), but of course it's up to you to determine whether it's worth your while.
I'm not going back to the windows, i need some solution with linux.
Pjotr wrote: ⤴Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:24 am
If you can't update in the BIOS itself, and if you no longer have Windows on that machine: there is a way, but it will cost you some hours:
2. Backup your documents etc., and then install Windows 10 with that DVD (thus wiping your Linux Mint);
3. Apply the BIOS update;
4. Re-install Linux Mint.
Personally I'd do it (if it doesn't help for your current problem: a newer BIOS is always nice), but of course it's up to you to determine whether it's worth your while.
I'm not going back to the windows, i need some solution with linux.
It looks to me you have two options:
1. Complain to HP that they should provide a Linux solution for updating the BIOS, and pray humbly to all the gods you know for the cooperation of HP;
Pjotr wrote: ⤴Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:24 am
If you can't update in the BIOS itself, and if you no longer have Windows on that machine: there is a way, but it will cost you some hours:
2. Backup your documents etc., and then install Windows 10 with that DVD (thus wiping your Linux Mint);
3. Apply the BIOS update;
4. Re-install Linux Mint.
Personally I'd do it (if it doesn't help for your current problem: a newer BIOS is always nice), but of course it's up to you to determine whether it's worth your while.
I'm not going back to the windows, i need some solution with linux.
It looks to me you have two options:
1. Complain to HP that they should provide a Linux solution for updating the BIOS, and pray humbly to all the gods you know for the cooperation of HP;
2. Be practical and apply my potential solution.
Suit yourself.
there is another way using bootable usb to update bios, can i use that? and are you sure it will solve the battery drain problem?
