Laptop Power Management

[Stephen]

yeah someone made a tool that did allot of under the hood stuff like
this and allowed you some nice control over it.

im not used to linux laptops. but firt run battery life went from
about 2.5 hrs to nearly 6.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Joseph Sinclair
<plug-discussion at stcaz.net> wrote:
> Not sure about alternate tools; but you should read this post on Phoronix about kernel regressions that cause high power consumption: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2638_aspm&num=1
>
> On 06/30/2011 08:59 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> Yay i finally got a spare drive to do an install of Linux on this thing.
>>
>> at ableconf last a gentleman was talking about power management that
>> he was using in his school district on some netbooks. I cant fro the
>> life of me remember what it was nor can i find my notes that were
>> taken on the matter.
>>
>> Does anyone remember what he was using? or the school district he was from?
>>
>> Or even some good ideas? right now im starting with a fresh Ubuntu
>> 11.04... and i just remember that it made power times on battery
>> phenomenally better on this power hungry beast.
>>
>> Anyhow thanks in advance!
>>
>
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