[00:28] <magic_ninja_work> hey everyone. I just upgraded to 19.10 today, installed the nvidia 435.21 drivers and I'm on an optimus setup with nvidia / intel. I noticed in the new version there was a couple funky things going on with power
[00:29] <magic_ninja_work> The bluetooth on this laptop now uses 4-5W consistently and the ethernet port uses 3W even though nothing is plugged in. I went ahead and turned them both off to verify, but that wasnt' an issue before.
[00:30] <magic_ninja_work> I'm not sure how to report it, or if it needs to be reported, even.
[13:47] <magic_ninja_work> So, is there any way to see why the bluetooth driver is using so much power? It wasn't the case before.
[13:47] <magic_ninja_work> something changed since 19.04. I'm willing to investigate and report it, but I'm not quite sure how. I have just confirmed that it is the bluetooth driver via powertop. 3-5W is what it tends to use.
[13:49] <magic_ninja_work> The other thing here is that my ethernet port is using 1-3W and it isn't even plugged in. This stops if I disable that ethernet interface.
[13:55] <TJ-> magic_ninja_work: sounds like something ACPI would affect
[13:56] <magic_ninja_work> TJ-, I just did an upgrade to 19.10, but I have a pretty popular laptop model, and I'm thinking it may effect many other users.
[13:56] <magic_ninja_work> I'm just not sure how to go about tracing it down.
[13:59] <TJ-> magic_ninja_work: where do you see the wattage reported? I've never been able to get powertop to show that kind of info
[14:00] <magic_ninja_work> In powertop. You have to run it as admin and let it go for a while. Sometimes an hour or more.
[14:13] <magic_ninja_work> looks like I'm just getting incorrect power reporting in general with the new driver.
[14:13] <magic_ninja_work> I'm sure part of it is that the nvidia card can't power off.
[14:13] <TJ-> magic_ninja_work:  an hour? oh, no wonder!
[14:14] <TJ-> magic_ninja_work: shame it doesn't tell me that
[14:14] <TJ-> I'd presume the power usage is at the USB level
[14:14] <TJ-> is autosuspend enabled for the device?
[14:14] <magic_ninja_work> Yea. No hibernation, though. 
[14:14] <magic_ninja_work> No options for it anywhere.
[14:15] <magic_ninja_work> Part of it is that I'm using nvidia on-demand, so I lose a couple hours of battery life from that alone. I get like 8-10 hours with the card disabled completely.
[14:17] <magic_ninja_work> But yea, too bad power management is a bit screwy on my wired NIC, bluetooth radio and I'm using like 5W on my wireless device as well.
[14:17] <magic_ninja_work> *wireless NIC
[17:47] <karlthane> Trying to test the ZFS on root install option but have not found that option in installer, cannot even manually create zfs filesystem in installer. What am I doing wrong?
[17:47] <lotuspsychje> lordcirth_: did you test this yet? ^
[17:51] <lotuspsychje> karlthane: currently 19.10 testing is a bit slow.. havent tested this new feature myself
[17:51] <lotuspsychje> karlthane: i saw lordcirth_ was interested in this too, you might wanna talk about it when he's back
[17:51] <karlthane> lotuspsychje: Thank you.