[ltp] poor battery-life on X60T

Luming Yu linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:31:10 +0800


It would be helpful if you can run windows, and measure
battery-life under similar workload/condition.
That could help me understand the problem more correctly.


On 2/4/07, Sascha Heid <saschaheid@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> i just got a new Laptop, a X60T SXGA+.
> Im very please except for the battery-life, with the 8cell i only get a
> good 4h (max brightness, 1GHz, hdd standby, wlan on battery-mode).
> With the brightness on min. i have about 5h.
>
> Now im looking for something i could have missed, but i have frequency
> scaling running and working (compile-times vary as expected), and every
> intel-speedstep support is in my kernel. Im also running laptop-mode for
> the hdd.
>
> Since this model only gets shipped since about a week im maybe the first
> to run linux on it, but as soon as anybody has some ideas what could be
> wrong (if at all) plz let me now.
>
> Greetings from Germany,
> Sascha
>
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