I tried to use my MSI laptop with and without external displays, with battery saver mode + wifi disabled (ethernet connection) + Bluetooth disabled; and the battery life I have from 60% to 10% is of 1h55min with external monitors and of 2h28min without. So no drastic difference, here are the outputs of `cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.1/power_state` and `grep . /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.1/power/*` without external displays:
I can also do a test with my windows partition if you wish, but I know I have ~9 to 10h of battery life from a 100% charge with battery saver mode, I don't think we'll ever match what I get with ubuntu atm. It's really a shame that MSI does not work more closely with linux distributions for those new high end laptops... (btw the keyboard backlight cannot be turned off on ubuntu neither, I have (i) to boot on windows, (ii) disable keyboard backlight with MSI center tool and (iii) reboot on my ubuntu partition. I've already tried almost everything proposed on the web).
I tried to use my MSI laptop with and without external displays, with battery saver mode + wifi disabled (ethernet connection) + Bluetooth disabled; and the battery life I have from 60% to 10% is of 1h55min with external monitors and of 2h28min without. So no drastic difference, here are the outputs of `cat /sys/bus/ pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power_ state` and `grep . /sys/bus/ pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ *` without external displays:
mustang@ MSI:~/mnt/ gwdg$ cat /sys/bus/ pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power_ state MSI:~/mnt/ gwdg$ grep . /sys/bus/ pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ * pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ async:enabled pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ autosuspend_ delay_ms: 0 pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ control: auto pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ runtime_ active_ kids:0 pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ runtime_ active_ time:18655975 pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ runtime_ enabled: enabled pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ runtime_ status: active pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ runtime_ suspended_ time:19568 pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ runtime_ usage:0 pci/devices/ 0000:03: 00.1/power/ wakeup: disabled
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I can also do a test with my windows partition if you wish, but I know I have ~9 to 10h of battery life from a 100% charge with battery saver mode, I don't think we'll ever match what I get with ubuntu atm. It's really a shame that MSI does not work more closely with linux distributions for those new high end laptops... (btw the keyboard backlight cannot be turned off on ubuntu neither, I have (i) to boot on windows, (ii) disable keyboard backlight with MSI center tool and (iii) reboot on my ubuntu partition. I've already tried almost everything proposed on the web).