Hello, Am Freitag, 9. März 2007 20:42 schrieb Mike Hommey: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:32:21PM +0100, Thorsten Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello at all, > > > > for some time I've been trying to reduce my laptop's power consumption > > (while running on battery power) on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook C1320 > > with Debian etch. > > - I echo powersave to > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor - I installed > > laptop-mode in order to shut down my harddrive if it is unused. - I don't > > use swap, /tmp/ is a ramdisk-mount and /var/tmp links to /tmp, (I've 1 > > GB RAM) > > Thus my hd is barely used and my CPU reaches C3. > > > > But for some reason, Windows is more efficient in power saving. (3,5h vs. > > 4,5h battery life while surfing wireless). > > Is there anything else I can do to save battery power? > > Basically, no, except waiting for Linux ACPI support to get better.
Would Debian/kBSD Debian/OpenSolaris, Debian/Darwin be an option? Thanks, Thorsten.
