Hello EndeavourOS, I installed EOS on my Asus UP6502ZD laptop instead of Windows, and I’m very happy with it. Everything works perfectly, except for high power consumption, which drains the battery in less than an hour. This is because my dGPU remains constantly active, increasing the overall power …

hello, Since the last update, I managed to install the XE drivers, and the power consumption issue has been resolved; power draw is hovering around 10W. As a side note, my battery died completely at the exact moment I managed to install the drivers…:scream: I replaced it, and everything is wor…

What desktop environment are you using? Some lean on the GPU quite a lot, such as KDE Plasma under Wayland.

Hi Bink I’m under KDE and wayland, But when i manually deactivate the dGPU i dont see any difference, only 10w less. And nvtop indicate only activity on iGPU

There’s a couple of things I can suggest you try. The first is to have a play with the different power profiles (under Power Management, or via icon in your system tray), to see if they get you closer to your target. The other thing you might try is a little more experimental. It’s a mode I use q…

Different hardware, but the constant use of monitoring tools (widgets, applets, what-nots) was the culprit here: [image] Battery & Nvidia apparently overused after reinstalling with GRUB+BTRFS on laptop? Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware Hi everyone. I don’t t…

Does disabling KDE monitoring widgets (i.e. “plasmoids”) help you, @Bearout ?

Hello, thank you for your suggestions. I don’t have any widgets installed or running; apparently, it’s a driver issue. I’m using an Intel i915, and I’d like to use the XE driver, which is available (lspci) and should handle power problems. I tried force-probeing at boot, but the system won’t sta…

Asus laptop dGPU i915 drains battery fast

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware

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Different hardware, but the constant use of monitoring tools (widgets, applets, what-nots) was the culprit here:

Just in case.