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@@ -24,3 +24,33 @@ ncurses-devel zlib-devel and a functional glibc/pthreads development environment + + + +Outputting a report +------------------- +When invoking PowerTOP without arguments, it goes into interactive mode. +However, for reporting bugs etc there is a special reporting mode: + +powertop --html + +which will create a "powertop.html" file which is static and can be sent to +others to help diagnose power issues. + + + +Calibrating & Power Numbers +--------------------------- +PowerTOP will, when running on battery, track your power consumption as well +as your activity on the system. Once there are sufficient such measurements, +PowerTOP can start to report power estimates for various activities. +You can help get this estimation more accurate by running a calibration +cycle: + +powertop --calibrate + +at least once; this will cycle through various display brightness levels +(including "off") as well as USB device activities and some other workloads. + + + |