First I want to wish all of you happy holidays and a good time to whatever you are celebrate.
First I was running Gentoo in my Lenovo ThinPad z61m. Got bored with the long wait at installing software etc. Since I changed from gentoo to debian lenny the display performance and also the battery performance is lower then before. I have the standard battery which comes with the laptop and also a battery in the "ultra-Bay" slot. (see details below) Usually working time (including power on, one or two suspend or hibernate) was ca. about 2h or less. Without any interrupts (no power down and hibernate/sleep) the time would be close to 3h. Ok it sometimes affects what I do and which programs I run. So the above times are just the "felt" times. I did not do any tests and compared the result or stuff like that. The software I use is the same as I was using on gentoo (gnome,FF,TB,Zend,vim etc.) So my question is, what can I do to improve the working time and what can I check if something is not working as it should. eg. if there is some "special-debian-power" package or some general power saving settings which I'm not aware of. I know this is some very common question, but I think I miss something, so any answer, even ones with some should have done tasks are welcome. #### Battery details: Product: 41u4890 Verndor: Sony design charge 29.2Wh charge Rate: 14.3W (main) battery 2 details Product: 42t4502 Vendor: Sanyo design charge: 56.2 Wh #### j.keßler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
