[Fedora-spins] Power consumption in Fedora Spin in Think-pad E520

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 22:35:28 +0530,
   vamsi krishna kavety <vamsieverywhere at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello Spins users,
>
>I recently removed windows 7 and  Installed Fedora SPIN.
>Power consumption in F17 is considerably high (compared to windows)
>Full charged battery  I am getting (6 hours in windows) and (2 hours in
>fedora 17 spin)
>
>Does any one facing the same problem ??? please help me out.

It's really not spins question. Generally the open source drivers for video 
cards are not able to do power management as well as the closed drivers. 
You might try seeing in the catalyst or nvidia (if appropriate) gives 
you better battery like. There are also some kernel settings that can 
affect power consumption, but i am not real familiar with them. You also 
want to be careful with some that are experimental as there is potential 
do damage hardware.