On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:03:33 -0500 Tom <tbrinkman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > The laptop mode tools are handy too, see http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/ -- Brian Morrison "Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in the mud; after a while you realize you are muddy and the pig is enjoying it." _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
