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sixdiamants Offline

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Posted: Aug. 14 2007,14:40

Throttling during the night by means of cron job is probably the next thing I want to try.
Otherwise, I hardly ever use the graphics card since I access the box through ssh. The sheer heat of the graphics chip suggests that it's using up quite a bit of power.
I'm not convinced whether going into text-only mode or activating the screen saver puts the graphics chip to sleep or saves a substantial amount of energy.

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Posted: Sep. 18 2007,21:15

just for the record; here's a fine link : saving energy in linux
Where one finds a summary of tips and tricks that should be applicable to DSL.

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RigasW

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Posted: Sep. 25 2007,20:41

Hi,

I got myself a low cost CF-based fanless mini-itx computer by

Zonbu

The little box uses between 12 and 19 watts.

Zonbu is a Gentoo based Linux distro that uses about 1.5 GB for the operation system and applications, so 2.5 GB of the CF-card that comes withe the machine are left for data.

The box is powered with a via epia 1.2 GB CPU and comes with 512 MB RAM

I never tried it with DSL, but it does everything that I want to do in the living-room: Browse the web, watch digital photos, listen to music.

After using Zonbu for quite a while, you can find my review here:
Zonbu-Review

Rigas

benjy

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Posted: Sep. 26 2007,00:17

I've been looking into this sort of thing recently and stumbled upon the following website. Might be of some help to you but it depends on your system really.

http://www.lesswatts.org/

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