[ltp] T42 battery discharging time

[Eben King]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Uwe Walter wrote:

> On Mi, 2005-02-23 at 14:27 +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > I'm still investigating this. With brightness at minimum, no hungry 
> > process running, I get this consumption rate:
> > present rate:            35427 mW
> 
> Eric, you are BURNING power..!
> 
> I don't even seem to be able to reach this power consumption (*).

Maybe the difference is in device drivers loaded?  IIRC some devices power 
down when their driver's not loaded.

> (*) However, the measurements are not to be taken as accurate readings.
> The ACPI interface seems to use some averaging algorithms and might be a
> bit off...

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