mint4win installer

you are AWARE that with that you have WINDOWS 7 RUNNING
and in the running windows 7 you HAVE ALSO a running mint 15

so you have TWO operating systems running

you WILL have crappy battery life !!!!!!

mint4win installer is a type of VM


if you want better battery life
DO NOT run a operating system INSIDE a second OPERATING SYSTEM


Do a REAL dual boot

hi

if battery monitor issues remain consider installing gkrellm-ibam

gkrellm can interact with /proc and show lots of system info

image link is of gkrellm not ibam specifically
http://gkrellkam.sourceforge.net/gkr...2.3b-shot2.png

Boot linux from a usb thumb drive and power down the internal drive. Saves power, reduces heat generated by that drive. There's also conservative as a cpu frequency setting below powersave. But the governers do little more than tell how desperate the system needs to be before it changes modes. You can set the modes to minimum with the max also at minimum. And other agressive things like powering off the lcd after a couple seconds of no input signals. Granted that these are not default settings in most distros. And if you're running a virtualized OS, it probably doesn't have the access to make the changes you wish.

# cpufreq-info
# cpufreq-set -g conservative --min 1G --max 1G
(for my system that has a lowest setting of 1000MHz for the cpu frequency)

# cpufreq-set -g ondemand --min 1G --max 1.9G
(when I want to return to the system defaults on my system)

Your settings will vary depending on the specs of your hardware. Also bear in mind that every mounted drive is powered on and using juice. And every byte of used RAM is chewing cpu cycles to refresh and manage by the OS. And all those powered on devices and extra processes generate heat that tax the cooling system that much more.

I have to agree, virtual machines are not very effecient. Run a regular Linux Mint install and keep a seperate Windows install for Windows stuff. Wine could help you out with running some widows apps under Linux. Another thing that might help is to look into linux-phc linux-phc.org. It's like the Linux equivalent of Notebook Hardware Controller. It lets you undervolt your processor which can help keep you laptop cool as well as save your battery life.

First of all, min4win is NOT A VIRTUAL MACHINE. The OS is running directly on the hardware with no emulation being used. Thus, the performance is the same as a normal install, except for disk I/0 (because it uses a virtual hard drive.

I'll try all of those suggestions and see what works the best.

Forgive me if these have been mentioned, but
http://www.lesswatts.org has useful tweaks.

You need to get the powersave governor working on your kernel. That should cool the cpu.
HP don't provide great linux support for their box. google is better. It sounds like you have set up as a dragster, and then are worrying about fuel consumption. also linux-laptop.net probably has a page from someone who has sorted your type of box.

CamTheSaxMan:

Sorry it took me a while to get back to your question.

A module is a piece of a kernel that can be optionally loaded into the kernel.
Most are device drivers but not all. The module that helps the kernel understand the EXT4 (this one I think doesn't do anything device related)

Some drivers are permanently built into the kernel without being encapsulated as a module.
To change those drivers you would have to reconfigure your kernel.

lspci -k will tell you what PCI/AGP/PCIe devices are being claimed by what modules.
HTH