F11 preview - Battery duration

[iarly selbir | ski0s]

heheh, It would too good to be true, after aprox 1 hour and 50 minutes my
system shutdown without any alert or information of power manager applet


Regards,

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iarly selbir | ski0s

:wq!


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Gireesh <sgireeshmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:18 AM, iarly selbir | ski0s <iarlyy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm not believing, my laptop has a battery of 4 cells, after I enable on
> > power management applet the Xtreme power save mode, my battery duration
> goes
> > from 2 hours of duratin to 14 hours... uaaaaall
> >
>
> The change to DeviceKit means the power applets read the battery info
> incorrectly in some cases. My battery used to show negative capacity
> for a while before a bug was fixed.
>
> While recent power savings in F11 do seem to make up some gains, 2
> hours to 14 hours on a 4 cell battery is simply unbelievable.
>
> The only way to confirm is to ofcourse let your laptop run till it
> powers off without battery. Do save your work *before* 2 hours and
> file a bug if the laptop switches off anytime sooner than 14 hours ;-)
>
> PS: If it really goes on to run for 14 hours, I would be very
> interested in knowing the laptop model.
>
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