All excellent ideas, I enabled some things in laptop-mode, so will see how that goes.
Thanks, Dan On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 01:56:38PM +0100, giggzounet wrote: > Daniel Dalton a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get as much battery life out of my eeepc as possible. It's > > really good, I can currently get about 5 hours or just over on my > > 1008ha. I've turned off bluetooth, wireless and the screen as I'm > > blind. > > I have also enabled laptop-mode from the debian package > > laptop-mode-tools. > > > > In this package. there are several modules, which you can enable. For > example the powersaving of your sound card if it is possible. > > you can modify the laptop-mode-tools.conf in order to remount the file > with noatime/RELATIME then control the powermangement of your harddisk. > but it could be problematic for the hard disk...for example to set > "hdparm -B 1 /dev/sd*" is good to save battery life...but not good for > the disk life...there is lots of documentation on the net which explain > the problem. > > > What else can I do to save battery? I read somewhere I can throttle down > > the cpu speed when necessary? Or is this a dangerous procedure? Also is > > it possible to turn off power to the ethernet port as I rarely use > > this... > > > > for the ethernet port see laptop-mode-tools. there is a module for that. > > you can turn offf all the video output too. > > for the modification of the cpu speed i don't know for eeepc. on others > laptops which I'm using it's great...but on my eeepc (1201N) I can't do > this. Look if you have speedstep available for your processor. > > > Or is what I'm doing now about the best you can do? I'm very happy with > > it, but of course if I can increase it by half an hour or so I > > definitely will. Mainly I'm just using it for taking down notes, and > > every now and then connect to the wifi... > > > > Bye bye > Guillaume > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
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