You can extend the duration the battery gives by using the command

pm-powersave

and ya one more thing, you will need root permission for this. It does
give me some added minutes on my Dell XPS.

On Jan 3, 6:10 pm, Amresh Kumar Singh <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I use Sony Vaio laptop (E series VPCEH25EN, i3 processor, 2GB RAM) and have
> dual booting on my system. A fully charged battery runs Windows 7 for
> around 3hours and the same runs Ubuntu 11.04 just for 50-60 minutes. Is
> there any way out to optimise the battery power in Ubuntu ? Does Red Hat
> provide better power management ?
> One more query,I am not able to connect to the internet in Ubuntu 11.04
> using Nokia X2 phone. Samsung phone is doing fine for the same purpose. Are
> Nokia phones not supported in Ubuntu 11.04? I can connect to the internet
> using the same phone in Windows 7. I also downloaded some applications from
> Ubuntu software center meant for phones,but they are of no use.
> Thanks in advance,
> Amresh

Regards,
Abhinav Badola

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