[ltp] X200 Battery Life

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Tino Keitel wrote:
> As Lenovo just buys standard hardware (mostly from intel), and AFAIK
> uses standard Windows and its drivers, and windows driver writers are
> either working at intel or getting information from Intel, I would say
> it is Intels job to put its knowledge regarding its own hardware and
> powersaving into Linux, or at least provide the information required to
> do this.

You're wrong.  They do a LOT of advanced Windows driver development,
and there is nothing standard on their laptop environmental control
hardware, firmware and software.

> Other things may be features which are hard to achieve with current
> Linux software. For instance, I read that Windows clocks down the TFT
> refresh rate and the graphics chip dramatically if nothing happens on
> the screen.

That's correct, but it is something we could add to X.org (not easily, but
still it should be doable).

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  Henrique Holschuh