Updated power savings settings for Samsung Series 9 (NP900X3C-A05UK) and Ubuntu 14.10
Here is my updated /etc/rc.local for Ubuntu 14.10
#!/bin/sh -e # Sleep so all services have started before we change settings sleep 5 # Set Intel Audio to power save echo '1' > '/sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save'; # Temp disable ethernet port modprobe -r r8169 # Wireless Power Saving for interface wlan0 iw dev wlan0 set power_save on # VM writeback timeout echo '1500' > '/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs'; # Temp disable bluetooth modprobe -r btusb # Adjust backlight to start much lower echo 800 > '/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness' # - NMI Watchdog (turned off) echo 0 > '/proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog'; # - SATA Active Link Power management for i in `find /sys/class/scsi_host/*/link_power_management_policy`; do echo 'min_power' > $i; done; # - USB Autosuspend (after 2 secs of inactivity) for i in `find /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control`; do echo auto > $i; done; for i in `find /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend`; do echo 2 > $i; done; # - Device Power Management echo 'auto' | tee /sys/bus/i2c/devices/*/power/control > /dev/null; echo 'auto' | tee /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/power/control > /dev/null; # - CPU Scaling (power saving scaling governor for all CPU's for i in `find /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cpufreq/scaling_governor`; do echo 'powersave' > $i; done; exit 0