Sheer,
thanks for the link. So it's unfortunately not something fixable at the
moment. Really too bad.
nick
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 23:24 +0100, Sheer El-Showk wrote:
> Thomas, I'm not sure if you've seen this but Julien Blache has
> discussed this on his blog:
>
> http://blog.technologeek.org/
>
> I think he says the lowest he gets is around 25 W which corresponds to
> less than two hours of battery life. I'm using OS X now so I can't
> give you a reading but when I run Linux on my C2D MBP I usually get a
> projected battery life of 1.5 hrs which matches what you're seeing.
>
> As I understand it this is one of the main (if not the main) open
> problem with Linux on these machines. It seems that the MBP has some
> hardware that controls the power profile of a lot of the rest of the
> hardware . This is called (I think) the system management controller
> (SMC) and it is not, as yet, being taken full advantage of in Linux.
> I hope some progress is made on this soon but so far I haven't seen
> much change.
>
> cheers,
> Sheer
>
> On 2/20/07, Michael Gangolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 22:06:52 schrieb Nicolas Bock:
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > >
> > > I tried both of those and I still can't get below 22 W. Is that as low
> > > as one can go?
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> > present: yes
> > capacity state: ok
> > charging state: charged
> > present rate: 0 mW
> > remaining capacity: 44070 mWh
> > present voltage: 12490 mV
> >
> > # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
> > present: yes
> > design capacity: 55000 mWh
> > last full capacity: 44440 mWh
> > battery technology: rechargeable
> > design voltage: 11100 mV
> > design capacity warning: 250 mWh
> > design capacity low: 100 mWh
> > capacity granularity 1: 10 mWh
> > capacity granularity 2: 10 mWh
> > model number: ASMB012
> > serial number:
> > battery type: LION012
> > OEM info: Sony012
> >
> >
> > Plugged in, light on the highest value, both cpu and full speed (governor:
> > performance). CoreDuo MCB; kernel 2.6.20-mactel
> >
> > greetings,
> > Michael
> >
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