On Monday 28 July 2003 12:00 pm,
> From: Daniel Dui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 16:25, David Hart wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 11:22, Daniel Dui wrote:
> > > Works fine on my Dell latitude C600. The only problem is that the
> > > battery life with linux is not nearly as long as under windows xp.
> > > AFAIK, this problem is common to all laptops because Dell, Toshiba,
> > > IBM, Compaq, and the rest seem make quite good power management
> > > drivers for windows, but not for Linux.
> > >
> > > If anyone knows how to get battery life on linux as good as it is on
> > > win xp please let us know.
Dunno what I should be expecting from my new-to-me Toshiba 3440CT, but seems
reasonable. Just ran through about a two-hour meeting on it, and I've just
got RH9 on it.
One thing - do you have the laptop's BIOS configured to turn down the h/d
after a fairly short period of inactivity, or does it just keep spinning?
mark
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