I might be crazy... but as an ex-windows(xp) user with this laptop Last night .. I used the laptop with battery and it appeared that I got almost an extra hour of it.
Does Fedora have anything to do with it ? is that possible.. or ... I am just crazy or got lucky?
Thanks T
Terry R. Grier wrote:
I might be crazy... but as an ex-windows(xp) user with this laptop Last night .. I used the laptop with battery and it appeared that I got almost an extra hour of it.
Does Fedora have anything to do with it ? is that possible.. or ... I am just crazy or got lucky?
Thanks T
lol. I feel that has happened to me too!
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:13, Terry R. Grier wrote:
I might be crazy... but as an ex-windows(xp) user with this laptop Last night .. I used the laptop with battery and it appeared that I got almost an extra hour of it.
Does Fedora have anything to do with it ? is that possible.. or ... I am just crazy or got lucky?
Thanks T
Your crazy. :)
Battery life depends on a number of things. How old is the battery? Do you regularly use it until it is discharged or do you keep it in a docking station or on AC power all the time? Does your laptop utilize speedstep to adjust CPU speed, fan speed, etc.? Do drive the CPU at 100% all the time using setiathome or something similar? Do you have apm or acpi enabled?
All of these things will vary how long a battery will last. I routinely run my laptop on battery alone until it down to 15 or 12 % before plugging in the AC power. This keeps the battery from getting a memory and degrading. I originally kept the laptop in a docking station almost all the time. That battery quickly was reduced to a run time of less than 30 minutes. The new battery I routinely get 2.5 to 3 hours of run time and have for close to a year now.
Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:13, Terry R. Grier wrote:
I might be crazy... but as an ex-windows(xp) user with this laptop Last night .. I used the laptop with battery and it appeared that I got almost an extra hour of it.
Does Fedora have anything to do with it ? is that possible.. or ... I am just crazy or got lucky?
Thanks T
Your crazy. :)
Battery life depends on a number of things. How old is the battery? Do you regularly use it until it is discharged or do you keep it in a docking station or on AC power all the time? Does your laptop utilize speedstep to adjust CPU speed, fan speed, etc.? Do drive the CPU at 100% all the time using setiathome or something similar? Do you have apm or acpi enabled?
All of these things will vary how long a battery will last. I routinely run my laptop on battery alone until it down to 15 or 12 % before plugging in the AC power. This keeps the battery from getting a memory and degrading. I originally kept the laptop in a docking station almost all the time. That battery quickly was reduced to a run time of less than 30 minutes. The new battery I routinely get 2.5 to 3 hours of run time and have for close to a year now.
Yes, but the power management system under windows decides when to turn off your laptop. I would suppose that a laptop running linux without power management software would run until all power is depleted.
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:46, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote:
Yes, but the power management system under windows decides when to turn off your laptop. I would suppose that a laptop running linux without power management software would run until all power is depleted.
Of course that is true. I know FC2 can be configured to alert the user when the battery hits a certain level. I believe I have mine set at 12%, it pops up a window alerting me that the battery is low. And with the right acpi or apm options I believe it can be setup to execute a shutdown when the battery hits a threshold. Same thing as using a UPS with the software to logically shutdown your systems when the battery is low.
Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:46, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote:
Yes, but the power management system under windows decides when to turn off your laptop. I would suppose that a laptop running linux without power management software would run until all power is depleted.
Of course that is true. I know FC2 can be configured to alert the user when the battery hits a certain level. I believe I have mine set at 12%, it pops up a window alerting me that the battery is low. And with the right acpi or apm options I believe it can be setup to execute a
i'm a little confused w/ this acpi. i was trying to ru it and i found out i don't have. i have acpid. and i looked for acpi and i found a 2 year old version. now, i don't know what is the differance inbetween acpi and acpid; and if it' ok to install that ald version. but i do have the alert configured to %15 and it works. btw: i have acpi=on on grub.conf.
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Raffi Khatchadourian wrote:
Yes, but the power management system under windows decides when to turn off your laptop. I would suppose that a laptop running linux without power management software would run until all power is depleted.
That's what happens to me. I have FC3 on an Acer 2301LCi and it tells me that I don't have a battery!
Any ideas as to how I can persuade Fedora that there's actually a battery in this beast?
JDL
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Terry R. Grier wrote:
I might be crazy... but as an ex-windows(xp) user with this laptop Last night .. I used the laptop with battery and it appeared that I got almost an extra hour of it.
Does Fedora have anything to do with it ? is that possible.. or ... I am just crazy or got lucky?
One way this can happen is - speedstep is turned off in XP - but not in Fedora ( i.e - you have set it to 'Max power' mode in XP).
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