On 1 February 2011 03:37, Dante Paz <[email protected]> wrote: > I could say that on windows 7 my battery life time (I don't know how many > cells has, but is quite big) is around 4 to 5 hours. > On linux instead, the laptop after 30 or 40 minutes turns out quite hot > (just below the keyboard, at the location where the vga card is sited in), > and the battery runs out before 2 or 2 1/2 hours. > It would be really nice to be able to, at least, turn off the nvidia card > (I'm totally resigned for now to not compile cuda codes :) ) >
Could you try first two steps from point #3 in following blog post: http://robbyx.net/blog/?p=190 <http://robbyx.net/blog/?p=190>And tell me whether you get any difference in battery life? I'm having some success [1] but not sure if that's right thing to gain battery life, so I'd like to get confirmation/denial from the other person having the same laptop as me. [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/hybrid-graphics-linux/msg00471.html -- Dawid 'evad' Lorenz * http://dawid.lorenz.co null:// I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere
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