Fedora 9 On Laptop battery

Fastie fastie81 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 21:29:50 UTC 2008


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 at 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
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