Re: laptop battery life

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:28:37 -0700 Robby Russell wrote:

| My girlfriend has a laptop and she complains about the battery charge on
| occasions. I know that there are some ways to optimize Linux for laptop
| use but I am not familiar with this myself. 
| 
| She is running Fedora Core 2 on the machine and what sort of things
| should I look into in trying to find ways to help extend the battery
| charge?
| 
| Thoughts/suggestions?

If FC2 uses a 2.6 kernel (sorry, I don't try to keep up with
distro kernel versions), look at linux-2.6.9/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt.
Here's the intro & contents:

Introduction
------------

Laptop mode is used to minimize the time that the hard disk needs to be spun up,
to conserve battery power on laptops. It has been reported to cause significant
power savings.

Contents
--------

* Introduction
* Installation
* Caveats
* The Details
* Tips & Tricks
* Control script
* ACPI integration
* Monitoring tool

| Also, what are some good wifi cards for laptops that is fairly easy to
| get setup in Linux? 

http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html

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~Randy