[ltp] X200 Battery Life

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 15:42:08 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:12:34 +0100
> Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> dijo:

[...]

> > Just try to eliminate the usual suspects:
> > 
> > - disable USB (unload ehci_hcd and uhci_hcd)
> > 
> > - disable wireless LAN
> > 
> > - disable bluetooth
> > 
> > - dim the display
> > 
> > - stop sucking applications like firefox
> 
> I have to laugh. The first problem is that the display will be too dim
> to read. But that won't really matter because I will have turned off
> everything that makes the computer usable.
> 
> I don't mean to disparage what you say, because it is good to have a
> list of culprits. It's just that for a lot of people (like me) it is
> unrealistic. My mouse is bluetooth, I need my USB flash drive, I need
> to get on the net and mostly the only way to do so is with wireless,
> and my favorite browser is Firefox. What's a dude to do?

I didn't mean to use the system with everything disabled. I just meant
to try to find the culprit for the low battery runtime, and then
re-enable everything that is harmless and work-around the bad things.

Regards,
Tino