[ltp] ACPI and TP 770

Ajai Khattri linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:32:30 -0400


Andre Timmermann wrote:

> - with ACPI the battery should last longer (my battery is broken, with
> full battery I have 45 minutes, so I am happy with every minute more)

Im running Gentoo and use a package (called "thinkpad") that includes 
apmmiser described as "a daemon that automatically controls power 
expenditure mode (using tpctl) according to CPU usage". I get a lot of 
battery life on my TP770 that way.

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Aj.
Systems Administrator / Developer