[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.

	After further checking on my own machine, I just noticed that 
the 'radeon' and 'ati' drivers do *NOT* use DynamicClocks, at least 
not the ones in xorg and XFree86 as shipped with Debian or built from 
CVS sources.

	(**) RADEON(0): Option "BackingStore"
	(**) RADEON(0): Backing store enabled
	(==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
	(II) RADEON(0): Using software cursor
	(WW) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicClocks" is not used

	Ah well... too bad for me. 


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