[ltp] x60: Battery Life under Linux

[Martin Aumueller]

Hi,

after upgrading the bios from 1.04 to 1.06 (to get rid of the high pitch 
noise), it appeared to me that power consumption has risen by ~ 0.5 W. But of 
course this would not get you on par with windows...

On Wed July 19 2006 12:05, Thierry Nicola wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My battery life is for about 4-5 hours in windows, under acceptable
> working conditions on my x60. Pushing power saving to the max I get more
> than 6 hours from my battery, which is a four cell(4 cell). The exact
> specification of my x60 model can be found here
> www.williambrownstreet.net/Linux
>
> Under Linux, Ubuntu 6.06 dapper Drake, with kernel 2.16.25-686. I get
> only around 2 hours, which is less than 50 % from the possible(see
> windows).
>
> My question is what is your battery life, and what can be done to
> improve this. Til now I have no really tried to do anything(scaling CPU,
> killing daemons,...).
>
>
> Have a nice day
>
> Greetings
> Thierry NICOLA
>
> www.williambrownstreet.net/bmachine