[ltp] R40 Battery life

[shorty]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 15:40 -0600, James Mckenzie wrote:
> Shorty:
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> Take a look at the Radeon patches that are available.  This tends to make suspend last a little longer for those folks for whom it works.  Bob Alexander seems to be keeping them up to date.
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> James McKenzie
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>  > I have only just gotten around to getting acpi working on my R40. Its a
>  > 1.5 Mhz processor 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. Am running debian with a 2.6.10 kernel, ibm-acpi,
>  > and ondemand cpu governer. TP suspends fine and wakes up good to without
>  > much fiddling on my behalf, but battery drain is a problem.Lasts about
>  > 10 hrs in suspend. Is there a better cpu governer out there in your
>  > opinion. Ondemand knocks mine back to about 600Mhz most of the time. Was
>  > easy to set up too. Also wondering if there are drivers for the ibm a/b
>  > wirless card.
>  > Cheers.
>  > 

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> Where do I get these patches from. Am always a little wary of playing
> with my graphics or x system, as I've had some very frustrating
> experiences with it.

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