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Re: turning off bluetooth power

 

I know that it used to be enough for the Sony Vaio SZ-series to run
powertop and type "B" to turn it off,
but maybe the mapping has changed in recent kernels because I cannot
do it anymore.

Anyone?

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Thanks to the sony-laptop 0.6 modules I am down to around 12W (from
> powertop) and hopefully loads of run time even when doing programming.
>
> On thing I would like to be able is turning on and off the bluetooth
> device. Is it enough to unload the bluetooth modules, or do we need
> something similar as for thw g33 modules? There is already
>        /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/bluetoothpower
> but I am not sure it has any influence.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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