[ltp] Z61p: 5.2h on windows and barely 3H on linux

[Johannes Boy]

I get roughly the same on my z61p running Fedora Core 7, maybe a bit less.
Did you already try powertop? It should help to increase battery life
a little, but you will never be able to get the 5 hours from windows.
There are also some other ways to tweak things, like the kernels
laptop_mode and a script collection named similiar... but I just
started to look into things so I can't tell you much more :p

Some links I found:
http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Battery-Powered/index.html
http://www.lesswatts.org/

On 9/28/07, Marc MERLIN <marc_ltp@merlins.org> wrote:
> So, I have:
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz
> MemTotal: 2074120 kB
> fglrx-kernel: 8.38.6-1
> X.org: 7.2-0ubuntu11 (ubuntu feisty)
> 2.6.22.1-libata-tj-20070803-p4smp-preempt-1khz-marc4
>
> I also run powernowd which brings the CPUs down to 1GHz, LCD is set to
> minimum backlight, wireless is turned off.
>
> So, any idea why I can only get 2.8h out of a 9 cell extended battery while
> windows on the same hardware gets a bit over 5h?
> How long do you get on your comparable Z61 ?
>
> Thanks
> Marc
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