Laptop Power Management

[James Mcphee]

I usually turn down my cpu's frequency to reduce heat.  also increases
battery life.  cpufrequtils makes it easy.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> Stephen
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