On Wednesday 25 June 2008 04:29:50 pm Fastie wrote:
Thanks I am sending this right away..
May be a thing we can look into on F10
Chris
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Fastie wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have been working on Fedora since Core 6, and found that now I've
>> moved i've had to start using my battery more on my laptop than I used
>> to. So my battery just doesn't last. I got myself a replacement
>> thinking that my battery is dead but still had the same result.
>> I am running an HP NC6320 laptop with nothing extra (clean install). My
>> brightness is on the lowest setting.
>> I went through my services and stopped all the ones I don't need and
>> installed powertop and did what it told me to do, (but it is not
>> permanent for one).
>> According to HP my battery should last about 4 hours, however I only get
>> about 1.5 hours if I am lucky. I have to say when I was testing this on
>> Windows I did not get 4 hours as HP say but got about 3 hours. So
>> running Fedora cut my battery time in half.
>> One thing I did see on powertop is that my "Wakeups-from-idle per
>> second" is
>> running at "669.1 interval: 10.0s", this looks high. How do you
>> reduce this?
>> Is there anything else I can do to get more battery power out of it?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris
>
> Since noone jumped on this message right away, you might want to resend
> it to the fedora-laptop-list where an issue like this might get better
> attention. I only run Fedora in virtual machines on my macbook (where
> osx is effectively still handling the power management), so I can't make
> any suggestions that would really help.
>
>
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
Thanks, sub'd, hadn't even occurred to me an I had a laptop for a year
now. FWIW, T61, all Intel, 4 hours bat (when the power goes out). But that's
with a 9cell optional bat. Goes to dim screen anytime it's not plug'd in.
Which is almost always. Other than that, an my external router/modem (ATU-R)
are on my old UPS/line power, bat time is about 4 hrs. Longest it ever took
CC to get the power back on. Recently, when a truck took down a pole.
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas