Fedora 9 On Laptop battery

[Tom]

On Wednesday 25 June 2008 05:41:25 pm 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

  try, in /etc/rc.local

/sbin/hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda

  Please don't top post anymore 

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    Tom Brinkman                     Corpus Christi, Texas