At 08:55 AM 12/12/02, you wrote:
I replaced RH7.3 on my laptop with Mandrake 9 because of how well it configured my touchpad. Does anyone know of a utility that will manage the battery? I have to stay within 6' of an electrical outlet.
I moved to Mandrake on my laptop for the same reason (touchpad issues with redhat). I get like half of the time out of my battery in Linux as I do in WinXP. Most newer laptops are ACPI only. ACPI is the new standard which will replace APM. Support for ACPI in Linux is still very minimal, I don't think it comes with any distros yet (I guess it will probably be in all of them when its added to the new kernel) but I think you can download a kernel patch somewhere.
If I could get this working in Linux it would throttle back my CPU from 1000Mhz to who-knows-what when the machine is mostly idle.
-Ryan
