From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751687AbXBCVGm (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:06:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751692AbXBCVGm (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:06:42 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:36687 "EHLO pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751687AbXBCVGl (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:06:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:06:26 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Battery life on Lenovo X60s In-reply-to: To: Casper Bruun Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <45C4F952.5090805@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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! > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ 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. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/