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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAfter installing the jackd audio daemon, conky, and a few other things that operate in the background, the idle power consumption rose to about 3.8 watts, with an estimated battery time of 10.5 hours:<\/p>\n\n\n\n While watching a full-screen 1080p YouTube video in a Firefox browser over WiFi, the power consumption averaged 7 watts with a battery time of 5.5 hours:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Except for the fingerprint reader, every other component of the laptop seems to work fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The special function keys at the top of the keyboard work, including screen brightness. The keyboard backlight works with Fn+SPACE. Trackpad and Trackpoint work. Sound works, both speakers and headphone jack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suspend and resume work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I enjoy producing music on the laptop, so I installed Ubuntu Studio Controls, which manages the jackd daemon and pulseaudio bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ardour, Carla, and the excellent Surge XT synth all work fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Virtualbox did not install at first because it has an undeclared dependency on gcc-12. After installing gcc-12, virtualbox installed You can download my .conkyrc config file here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comments are closed on this blog, but you can reach me by email \u0430t dave \u0430t millermattson \u0440eriod com. You know what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The short story is that Linux Mint 21.1 (based on Ubuntu 22.04) runs remarkably well on a Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 3 AMD. Thermals and Kernels Reportedly, AMD added power management for the Ryzen “Rembrandt” mobile processors in the ACPI Platform Profile for recent Linux kernels. I couldn’t determine for sure what “recent” means, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,71],"tags":[51,87],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-2","category-linux-mint","tag-linux","tag-thinkpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/millermattson.com\/dave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3.8W.png\")
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Virtualbox<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
without problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\nConky<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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