card reading killing my battery, on macbook pro running Debian
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**I am currently using a macbook pro but the operating system is debian 8.2 not os x**
I am using a macbook pro but there's this one device that's just draining a lot of power. This USB device: Card Reader (Apple)
32.5 W 100.0% Device USB device: Card Reader (Apple)
2.60 W 100.0% Device Radio device: btusb
209 mW 19.7 pkts/s Device Network interface: wlan0 (wl)
This device really drains my battery, I noticed that my laptop wouldn't even get 2 hours when not plugged in, I installed powertop. Made all the recommended changes but this device, I can't find out how to disable it. I don't even use that reader and forgot that it was there.
I configured all my devices to use limited power in my rc.local
echo '0' > '/proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog'
echo 'min_power' > '/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy'
echo '1' > '/sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save'
echo '1500' > '/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-4/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-12/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-8.3/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1f.3/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.1/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1c.3/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1c.4/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1c.2/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1c.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1b.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:16.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:14.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:01.1/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:01.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:00.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:08:00.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:07:06.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:07:05.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:07:04.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:07:03.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:07:00.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:06:00.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:05:00.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:04:00.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/power/control'
echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1f.0/power/control'
How can I get this device to act sanely or disable it completely because I haven't used it.
Asked by user1610950
(829 rep)
Jan 8, 2016, 08:13 AM
Last activity: Jan 12, 2016, 07:11 PM
Last activity: Jan 12, 2016, 07:11 PM