[ltp] battery suggestion

Adrian Bastholm linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:13:02 +0100


There was this USB bug which caused laptops to never go into the C3
power state, that could be it. Or i could be wrong ;)

Regards,
Adrian

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 22:22 +0100, come se fosse antani wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2007 3:54 PM, Riccardo Paterna <riccardo@paterna.nl> wrote:
>         Hi to list,
>         i purchased an ibm thinkpad x60 i installed ubuntu on it and
>         every thing
>         work fine. I have only a question the battery duration is
>         about 2 hours
>         but in ibm specs is 7 hours how i can improved the battery
>         duration? I 
>         can use the kernel patch ibm-acpi? or my model is not
>         supported? Some
>         one has an thinkpad x60 and can tell me how i do?
> 
> I'm not a guru here, but I'd suggest you to begin wit the intel's
> utility 'powertop'; that tool can help you to understand which is
> guilty for your high power consumption (powertop will give you the
> number of 'wakeups' caused by some application/setting). 
>