From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Casper Bruun <casperbruun@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Battery life on Lenovo X60s
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:06:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C4F952.5090805@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.7bJzT2yHAw1twVZpYBqksfpGUy0@ifi.uio.no>
Casper Bruun wrote:
> Hello
>
> I and many others are having problems with battery life on the Lenovo
> X60s laptop.
>
> There have been several threads concerning this on Nabble, thinkwiki
> and many other Linux sites, and the problem has always been the same:
> Linux draw significantly more power than XP on this particular laptop.
>
> Everything known about the problem is summarized here:
> http://www.nabble.com/thinkpad-x60-Battery-Life--!-t1971716.html
>
> I am posting here as a last resort, as I simply have no idea where
> else to ask. What could possibly be causing this?
>
> As I am not very technical, I'm not sure what other information you
> need to look into this. Tell me if you need need config files, logs or
> anything.
>
> Can someone please look into this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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The test results supposedly show that the CPU speed isn't being reduced
when the kernel thinks it is. It looks like that test was using
speedstep-centrino as the scaling driver, you may want to see if
acpi-cpufreq works instead.
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2007-02-03 21:06 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-02-03 19:34 Battery life on Lenovo X60s Casper Bruun
2007-02-04 13:35 ` Pavel Machek
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