Increased power consumption after switch from Mint to Manjaro

[Olli]

well, you could dig deeper how the acpi-settings are. they will affect the control of the power-management.

How to Choose the Proper ACPI Kernel Argument

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ The introduction of Optimus laptops have created new challenges for Linux users. One of the biggest issues is having the proprietary graphics card work when the system boots. Many times the advice given is to add an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (acpi ) kernel parameter to grub. While a specific acpi kernel parameter may be given, it is sometimes not appropriate to the hardware it is being applied to. This can cause system instability and some functions of the lap…

[HowTo] Power savings setup| 2021-01-25

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Important things Make sure that you have installed working fine for your hardware LTS kernel or lastest stable kernel Since 4.12 kernel you have to create a /etc/udev/rules.d/60-ioschedulers.rules with setup about I/O schedulers for different types storage. HowTo is described in this article. Make sure that you have installed for your CPU Microcode Make sure that you have added the appropriate entries in the GRUB configuration file Make sure you have installed all of the…