There are alot of little things you can do to increase battery life. Have you tried powertop? Solid state drives get better battery life. Make sure acpi, and cpu power saving is working on the laptop.
Dont upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04. Do a fresh install. Chris... On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr<[email protected]> wrote: > I recently bought an HP DV2-1030us laptop, and as you might guess, the first > thing I did was blow Vista and put on Ubuntu. Upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 > gave me lots bugs (e.g. speakers stop working), so I ultimately brought it > back down to 8.10. > > Much to my chagrin, the battery life now blows major chunks. (I posted a > few questions on the Ubuntu forums, so I'm sure I'll eventually kludge > something that's manageable.) > > My question to the list is the larger question of, why does Linux "suck" at > battery management? And what have you done to alleviate the suckiness on > various platforms? > > Googling I see tons of opinions on various distros, but I can't find > anything that explains the overall suckage. (Up to this point, I've used > Linux on desktops mostly and haven't had to really deal with this) > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
