Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote:
> My wife, two colleagues, and I all have Toshiba Libretto
> 50CTs with a 4.3-G Toshiba hard disk, lilo, and a Mandrake
> 6.0 installation along with W95. All use Gnome with
> Enlightenment, the default setup with Mandrake
i thought KDE was the default for mandrake? anyway, i know
KDE has laptop utilities built in to manage power usage. i
would make sure you have apm installed,
rpm -qa | grep apm
then install it if needed and do a man apm. also check man apmd
then see if you can use the KDE apps under GNOME/enlightnment.
if KDE is installed you should be able to have access to them.
i'm sorry i can't be any more help than that. i hope someone else
can offer you more experienced help.
>
>
> My wife uses the machine on the train, and noticed that
> battery life was about half an hour for full discharge,
> when previous comparisons on the Net led us to expect
> longer life than with Windows.
>
> I since confirmed this on my own machine. WIth no activity
> the screen shuts down after a while, but the disk keeps
> spinning. The battery monitor beeps at each percent drop,
> and it took about 10 minutes to go from 63% to 33%.
>
> There must be something we have to install or some setting
> we have to change. Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a
> Associate Editor Electronic Products
> 20+ years without a car, a TV, or a website
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