i’ve run qubes on a variety of thinkpad laptops historically, and i’m having unusually high power draw on this thinkpad t480 i recently started using, e.g. 0-12 W showing in powertop next to “Audio codec hwC0D0: Realtek (pulseaudio)”. for comparison, cpu and display backlight typically use 6-12 W, s…

You can try to use pipewire instead after you upgrade to Qubes OS 4.2 (and you should do this ASAP): [image] Migration dom0 audio from pulseaudio to pipewire available for testing 4.2 Testing Recent updates include a migrating audio in dom0 from pulseaudio to pipewire. It …

Thinkpad t480: very high pulseaudio power draw

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apparatus September 24, 2024, 8:15am 3

You can try to use pipewire instead after you upgrade to Qubes OS 4.2 (and you should do this ASAP):

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