battery life is bad

DAChristen29 · 02-18-2003, 08:45 PM

i dual boot win xp and redhat 8.

wheni use windows, i get about 2 hours of battery life. but when i use linux, i get only 35 minutes of life. how do i make my battery last longer ? i have apm and acpi support, i have support for toshiba laptops, i have all that laptop stuff built into my kernel. i still dont get the amount of life i want. what tools or patches do i need to make my battery lasy at LEAST 1 hour and 20 minutes ?

i heard from someone in a chat room that i need to download some sort of patch for laptop support. he gave me the website and i downloaded. only problem was, im using kernel 2.4.18 and the patch was for the pre kernel 2.4.21

Tinkster · 02-19-2003, 04:06 PM

The TLDP is your friend!

Cheers,
Tink

P.S.: My TP R32 (P4 1.8GHz, 512MB, 20GB, DVD)
has an average battery life of 2.5 hours in Linux :}

DAChristen29 · 02-19-2003, 07:12 PM

TINKSTER: ive already read this stuff wheni was bored in mandrake 9.

how do you get your life to last that long ?

Tinkster · 02-20-2003, 02:03 PM

Quote:

ive already read this stuff wheni was bored in mandrake 9.

And how much of it did you understand & do?

Cheers,
Tink

DAChristen29 · 02-21-2003, 05:14 PM

ive heard of something, toshiba power utilities for linux.
i downloaded them and installed them successfully, but i dont know how to run them. does anyone know how to start this ? the documentation doesnt help, nor does the website