question -

I have an asus m5np with fc3...

and I see cpu speed during boot up. Does it actuall modify the cpu speed to maximize batter life? or is there a way i can do this?

and... is there a battery status indicator for gnome? I am tired of my laptop just shutting off on me randomly.

Thanks!

Martin

I had no idea about your questions but I wanted to help you anyway so I looked at debian repository and that is what I found:


Package: cpudyn (1.0-2)
CPU dynamic frequency control for processors with scaling

cpudyn controls the speed in Intel SpeedStep, Pentium 4 Mobile, AMD Powernow, PowerPC, Crusoe LongRun machines with the cpufreq compiled in the kernel, or with machines that support ACPI throtling. It saves battery, lowers temperature, and can put the computer disks in standby mode if a given period has passed without any I/O operation. It works well even with journaled file systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS. Even supports the new interface for kernels 2.6.x


Package: gnome-applets (2.8.2-1)
Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - binaries files
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Battstat: (battery applet) shows the status of the power subsystem in your laptop.

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