Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 12. 2012 04:24:36 je Daniel Dalton napisal(a): On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:45:25PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: But should the knew kernel really improve battery life by apparently 5-6 hours (according to powertop) Five to six hours of improvement would be a

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:45:25PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: But should the knew kernel really improve battery life by apparently 5-6 hours (according to powertop) Five to six hours of improvement would be a very large amount. Probably more than is reasonable. But

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:39:17AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: Daniel Dalton: My question: does 64 bit debian use more battery power than 32 bit? Short answer: no. The relevant difference is probably Debian vs. Ubuntu here. Good news. So now just to figure out how ubuntu is out

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:55:08PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Jochen Spieker wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: My question: does 64 bit debian use more battery power than 32 bit? Short answer: no. The relevant difference is probably Debian vs. Ubuntu here. Agreed. The difference is

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Daniel Dalton wrote: But should the knew kernel really improve battery life by apparently 5-6 hours (according to powertop) Five to six hours of improvement would be a very large amount. Probably more than is reasonable. But smaller amounts would not be unusual. Wouldn't device drivers be

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-18 Thread Loic J. Duros
On 12/18/2012 02:45 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: But should the knew kernel really improve battery life by apparently 5-6 hours (according to powertop) Five to six hours of improvement would be a very large amount. Probably more than is reasonable. But smaller amounts would not

Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-17 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Before I do too much investigating I was wondering if anyone might be able to give me a simple yes/no answer to this question. I just installed debian 64 bit amd on my Dell vostro 3350 laptop. I turn all of the wifi bluetooth and screen off (I'm blind) and observe power using powertop.

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-17 Thread Jochen Spieker
Daniel Dalton: My question: does 64 bit debian use more battery power than 32 bit? Short answer: no. The relevant difference is probably Debian vs. Ubuntu here. Should I return to a 32 bit set up if battery life is important to me? Or is there perhaps something that maybe isn't configured

Re: Laptop battery life with 64 bit

2012-12-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Spieker wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: My question: does 64 bit debian use more battery power than 32 bit? Short answer: no. The relevant difference is probably Debian vs. Ubuntu here. Agreed. The difference is probably the linux kernel version. Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal has a