How do I run powertop --calibrate in opensuse 12.2?

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When I try to run “powertop --calibrate” in opensuse 12.2 on my laptop (in a terminal) it returns in less than a second with no output! I tried running it as root but that returns an error, so I tried running it via kdesu but that’s what returns with no output:


myuser:~>kdesu /usr/sbin/powertop --calibrate --debug
myuser:~>

I’m on:
openSUSE 12.2
KDE 4.8.5
Kernel: 3.4.11 (64bit)
8GB RAM (6.5GB free)
Intel i5 1.7 quad core

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It appears there was a bug in powertop 2.0:

https://lists.01.org/pipermail/powertop/2012-May/000035.html

Upgrading to 2.2 appears to fix the problem (uninstall powertop 2.0 first):


myuser:~>wget download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/powertop-2.2-1.1.x86_64.rpm
myuser:~>sudo rpm -i powertop*