[ltp] Re: Best ways of maximizing battery life on a T30 under Linux?

[Thomas Hood]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 06:20, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Greg Macek wrote:
> > In everyone's experience here, what are some things I can be doing to
> > help maximize my battery life while running Linux on my T30 notebook? 

> > Screen is set to not be at same brightness on battery. 
> 
> That is a good start.
> 
> I have gotten a fairly good improvement in system life by installing the
> 'speedfreq' package[1], which sets the SpeedStep state depending on the
> CPU load.
> 
> My machine is now in 'powersave' almost all the time, and my battery
> life is up substantially.
> 
> Other packages such as 'cpudyn' address the same issue.

Have you ever tried apmiser (in the tpctl package)?
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Thomas Hood <jdthood2@yahoo.co.uk>