[ltp] R40 Battery life

John M Flinchbaugh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:20:25 -0500


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On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:45:38PM +1000, shorty wrote:
> Thanks John. Havent come across your laptop mode tip yet but will look
> it up. (have only just started reading the archives) Havent used the
> swsusp, just using software suspend2 at the moment. Having a few probs
> with that too, but as I dont use it very often (mostly just sleep) I
> havent gotten around to fixing it yet.=20

Interestingly, I don't think I've seen my previous post either come
across the list.

Basically, compile laptop-mode into your stock 2.6 kernel, if it's not
already, and install Debian's laptop-mode-tools package to get scripts
that will enable it for you.  That'll allow the kernel to spin down the
hard drive more often.
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John M Flinchbaugh
john@hjsoft.com

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