Re: [UM-LINUX] ACPI and an unrelated question

[John Demme]

Right, so actually one good way to get better battery life (much better) is to run a CPU throttling daemon.  It detects your CPU usage and throttles it accordingly, so your CPU is, on the average, not using nearly as much juice.  The one I use is called powernowd.  It works pretty well.  Alternatively, I think that one can configure one's kernel to do the same thing, but I''ve no experience with that.  I prefer userspace over kernelspace whenever possible (in nearly direct opposition to the Linux kernel guys it would seem).

Related to ACPI- does anyone have any experience with getting ACPI sleep states working?  I have a Toshiba Portege M205 running Gentoo, and I can't get any of the sleep states to work properly.

~John Demme

On 10/24/05, Derek Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I'm running gentoo + 2.6.13 on a vaio v505ax.  I also dual
boot Windows XP Pro.  On windows, I get about 3 hours of
battery life at the most conservative setting, but on linux i
get much much less.  Anyone have any tips to share for
boosting battery life?

On a different note, if anyone reading this drives for Shuttle
and is looking for extra hours during the week (from 2-7), let
me know.

~Derek