[ltp] x60: Battery Life under Linux feat. fan high pitch noise

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Hi Martin
i just redad you got rid of this high pitch fan noise by updating you 
bios?!
me and some animals were wondering how to dispose from this!
i' ll gonna try this

Martin Aumueller wrote:
> 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
>>     

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