[ltp] Re: Best ways of maximizing battery life on a T30 under Linux?

[Greg Macek]

Thanks. I will give this a try. Looks promising. Will post my results
after I get everything installed. 

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 23:20, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Greg Macek wrote:
> > In everyone's experience here, what are some things I can be doing to
> > help maximize my battery life while running Linux on my T30 notebook? 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Screen is set to not be at same brightness on battery. 
> 
> That is a good start.
> 
> I have gotten a fairly good improvement in system life by installing the
> 'speedfreq' package[1], which sets the SpeedStep state depending on the
> CPU load.
> 
> My machine is now in 'powersave' almost all the time, and my battery
> life is up substantially.
> 
> Other packages such as 'cpudyn' address the same issue.
> 
>      Daniel
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  <http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/speedfreq/>
> 
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