[ltp] R40 Battery life

Robert Svoboda linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:09:53 +0100


* shorty <short101@dodo.com.au> [2005-02-25 13:20]:
> I have only just gotten around to getting acpi working on my
> R40. 

I have APM

> Its a 1.5 Mhz processor 

1.4Mhz

> and was just wondering what battery life other people are
> getting out of there R40's.  (mines a 2722 GDM) I can only
> get about 2.5 hours out of mine. 

I don't know exact numbers but am able to get ~4 hours out of
it while watching movies.

> Am running debian with a 2.6.10 kernel, ibm-acpi, and
> ondemand cpu governer. 

gentoo, 2.6.9, powernowd (should do the same job as your
ondemand governor I guess)

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-r