I am running Hardy on an Inspiron 6400 and I am facing the same problem. Earlier with Gutsy the power manager used to show me around 3 hours of battery backup now it has dropped to 1 hour 40 minutes.
-- Laptop battery runtime reduced in Hardy compared to Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219648 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs