[ltp] poll: how is your battery? (9-cell-battery lost about 25% capacity in 10 months)

[David A. Desrosiers]

> The bios is set for economy, and I have have the cpufreq_ondemand loaded.

	Try using the conservative governor, you'll see improved 
battery life out of it. Also, don't forget to set DynamicClocks to 
"true" in your X configuration (under 'Section "Device"'). This will 
change the video clockrate to squeeze even more life out of the 
battery. 

	According to IBM, I should be getting 5+ hours out of these 
batteries (I have two with my T42p, both are the type that stick out 
the back of the laptop... I've been told that these are the "high" 
capacity batteries, so I guess the T42p doesn't even ship with 
"normal" capacity batteries).

	According to my little battery script: 

$ battery
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          discharging
present rate:            15547 mW
remaining capacity:      66930 mWh
present voltage:         12300 mV

Remaining time:  4:18
Current time:    8:12
Running until:  12:30


David A. Desrosiers
desrod@gnu-designs.com
http://gnu-designs.com