acpi

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

HM Eng.Prowip wrote:
> 
> with FC5 I tried different powersaving profiles what in fact did not matter 
> anything (unless I closed the lid of course), also my processor does not jump 
> to higher speeds nor the fan speed goes up a lot so my guess is that this is 
> some acpi battery issue. 
> 

I've done a few things. I'm using radeonfb for console 
video(dynamicclocks). Enabled dynamicclocks for X, running cpuspeed, 
running gnome-power-manager (make sure LCP is suspended in a short 
amount of time when on battery) and I get > 4hours on FC5 with my IBM T42.

Good enough for me, don't know how much better that could get.

/Thomas