[ltp] X200 Battery Life

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:04:20 -0200


On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Andrew Mason wrote:
> Thanks for the information guys. I will have a look tonight when i get
> home and report back later.
> 
> 
> Also, I noticed last night in powertop that the acpi module seem to be
> responsible for a considerable amount of wakeups. This was with 2.6.27
> on Intrepid. Can anyone else confirm this behaviour ?

What I can tell you is that unless you're using 2.6.27.4, you have a broken
or badly mangled kernel ACPI-wise.  So make sure you have the latest stable
patch on that kernel...   It might well make a LOT of difference, the fixes
were related to EC interrupt handling.

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  Henrique Holschuh