[ltp] Re: Best ways of maximizing battery life on a T30 under
Linux?
Greg Macek
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:45:55 -0500
Does anyone know where else I can try and download the cpudyn package?
The website seems to be down at the moment. Hmm...
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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