"Steven Hanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now the weird thing, I have just had my laptop off the power lead for about > 10 minutes and it is already down to 95% battery left according to gkrellm > with the pmu plugin.
That's like 200 minutes/battery which doesn't seem aweful, does it? > Also what is the cpu doing? is there the ability to have it put to sleep > lots? I seem to remember linus did a hack a while back so his laptop had the > cpu being put to sleep every cycle if it was not needed or some such, (of > course as is often the case with linus hacks, it only worked on his laptop, > didnt even work on other vaio's or something was what I heard) I'm wondering if anyone has a page of general tunings one can set to extend the battery life, stuff like taking out the DVD/CDROM drive from the bay, lowering screen brightness, hard disk settings. jas.
