On Friday 21 June 2002 07:47 pm, Andrew Biggadike wrote: > I'm running Woody on a Dell Latitude C800 and yesterday I noticed > that the battery life of my laptop ran out much quicker than it does > when it is booted into Windows. (Approx. 50 min compared to 2.5 > hrs.) > > Does anybody know of any reasons that may cause this, or potential > solutions? Thanks, > > Andrew > > (If you need more system info just let me know)
Have you got your kernel compiled to "make CPU Idle calls when Idle ?" Are you running a journalling FS (ext3 etc) which will stop your HD from ever spinning down ? Those are the two biggest things (in my experience) which affect battery life. - Derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
