Laptop.txt

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====== Laptop ======
Created søndag 23 oktober 2016

**Some useful Laptop tools for power management ex.**

===== TLP =====
**# Advanced power management, not much setup is required**
$ pacman -S tlp

**# Enable its two services **
$ systemctl enable tlp.service
$ systemctl enable tlp-sleep.service

**# And disable **//rfkill//
$ systemctl disable systemd-rfkill.service

== Usage ==
**# Status report with configuration and active settings**
$ tlp-stat

**# Verbose information**
$ tlp-stat -v

**# Show warnings**
$ tlp-stat -w

**# Battery information**
$ tlp-stat -b

**# Disk data**
$ tlp-stat -d

**# USB devices**
$ tlp-stat -u

**# PCI devices**
$ tlp-stat -e

**# CPU data**
$ tlp-stat -p

**# Temperature**
$ tlp-stat -t

**# Radio devices (wifi, bluetooth etc)**
$ tlp-stat -r

**# System information (bios & system a.a.)**
$ tlp-stat -s

== Configuration ==
**# **//TLP//** keeps all its configuration in **///etc/default/tlp//

**# Disk I/O Scheduler**
**# Using the Zen-kernel, the **//bfq//** scheduler is preferred**
**# Search for **//DISK_IOSCHED=//** outcomment and change its value to **//bfq cfq//
{{{code: lang="texinfo" linenumbers="True"
DISK_IOSCHED="bfq cfq"
}}}



===== Powertop =====
**# **//Powertop//** is a intel tool that can help us with power suggestion,**
**# system information** **and show apps with high power consumption.**
$ pacman -S powertop

**# To get a report**
$ powertop --html=powerreport.html

**# This will create a **//powerreport.html//** file, open this and examine the suggestions etc.**


===== Disable Power/Suspend/Hibernate Buttons =====
**# Systemd can handle the ACPI events **
**# Edit **///etc/systemd/logind.conf//
**# Outcomment and define **//ignore//** to these 4 events (power, hibernation, suspend and lid-close)**
{{{code: lang="texinfo" linenumbers="True"
HandlePowerKey=ignore
HandleSuspendKey=ignore
HandleHibernateKey=ignore
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
}}}


**# Changes will take affect after next reboot**