Fedora 9 On Laptop battery

[Fastie]

Hi

I have been working on Fedora since Core 6, and found that now I've moved
i've had to start using my battery more on my laptop than I used to. So my
battery just doesn't last. I  got myself a replacement thinking that my
battery is dead but still had the same result.
I am running an HP NC6320 laptop with nothing extra (clean install). My
brightness is on the lowest setting.
I went through my services and stopped all the ones I don't need and
installed powertop and did what it told me to do, (but it is not permanent
for one).
According to HP my battery should last about 4 hours, however I only get
about 1.5 hours if I am lucky. I have to say when I was testing this on
Windows I did not get 4 hours as HP say but got about 3 hours. So running
Fedora cut my battery time in half.
One thing I did see on powertop is that my "Wakeups-from-idle per second" is
running at "669.1    interval: 10.0s", this looks high. How do you reduce
this?
Is there anything else I can do to get more battery power out of it?

Thanks
Chris

[Andrew Farris]

Fastie wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been working on Fedora since Core 6, and found that now I've moved
> i've had to start using my battery more on my laptop than I used to. So my
> battery just doesn't last. I  got myself a replacement thinking that my
> battery is dead but still had the same result.
> I am running an HP NC6320 laptop with nothing extra (clean install). My
> brightness is on the lowest setting.
> I went through my services and stopped all the ones I don't need and
> installed powertop and did what it told me to do, (but it is not permanent
> for one).
> According to HP my battery should last about 4 hours, however I only get
> about 1.5 hours if I am lucky. I have to say when I was testing this on
> Windows I did not get 4 hours as HP say but got about 3 hours. So running
> Fedora cut my battery time in half.
> One thing I did see on powertop is that my "Wakeups-from-idle per second" is
> running at "669.1    interval: 10.0s", this looks high. How do you reduce
> this?
> Is there anything else I can do to get more battery power out of it?
>
> Thanks
> Chris

Since noone jumped on this message right away, you might want to resend it to 
the fedora-laptop-list where an issue like this might get better attention.  I 
only run Fedora in virtual machines on my macbook (where osx is effectively 
still handling the power management), so I can't make any suggestions that would 
really help.

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list

[Fastie]

Thanks I am sending this right away..
May be a thing we can look into on F10
Chris

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Andrew Farris  wrote:
> Fastie wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have been working on Fedora since Core 6, and found that now I've moved
> > i've had to start using my battery more on my laptop than I used to. So my
> > battery just doesn't last. I  got myself a replacement thinking that my
> > battery is dead but still had the same result.
> > I am running an HP NC6320 laptop with nothing extra (clean install). My
> > brightness is on the lowest setting.
> > I went through my services and stopped all the ones I don't need and
> > installed powertop and did what it told me to do, (but it is not permanent
> > for one).
> > According to HP my battery should last about 4 hours, however I only get
> > about 1.5 hours if I am lucky. I have to say when I was testing this on
> > Windows I did not get 4 hours as HP say but got about 3 hours. So running
> > Fedora cut my battery time in half.
> > One thing I did see on powertop is that my "Wakeups-from-idle per second"
> > is
> > running at "669.1    interval: 10.0s", this looks high. How do you reduce
> > this?
> > Is there anything else I can do to get more battery power out of it?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chris
>
> Since noone jumped on this message right away, you might want to resend it
> to the fedora-laptop-list where an issue like this might get better
> attention.  I only run Fedora in virtual machines on my macbook (where osx
> is effectively still handling the power management), so I can't make any
> suggestions that would really help.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
>
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[Kevin DeKorte]

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Fastie wrote:
| Thanks I am sending this right away..
| May be a thing we can look into on F10
| Chris
|

Chris,

Here is a script I use to get better battery life on my T60p. You might
need to modify it a little.

http://kdekorte.blogspot.com/2008/06/thinkpad-t60p-acpi-script.html

Kevin

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[Fastie]

Brill I will have a look.
This stuff that powertop suggest should or can I add that to the conf file
to?
Thanks
Chris

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Kevin DeKorte  wrote:
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> | May be a thing we can look into on F10
> | Chris
> |
>
> Chris,
>
> Here is a script I use to get better battery life on my T60p. You might
> need to modify it a little.
>
> http://kdekorte.blogspot.com/2008/06/thinkpad-t60p-acpi-script.html
>
> Kevin
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[Fastie]

Hi Kevin

Ok so I had a look at your script and there is only two questions I want to
ask about this if that is ok..

1) I don't have an ATA drive, but an a SATA so I think I must use sdparm,
what I want to know is how to use this option do reduce the power
consumtion. I had a look at the forms but there is no way I can understand
this.....( have to say, first time I saw this command)
2) I looked at the conf file and how do I know it runs? I can run the sh
scrip manualy but how do I know it work automaticly.

Your help will be much apprichated..
Thanks
Chris

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Kevin DeKorte  wrote:
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> Fastie wrote:
> | Thanks I am sending this right away..
> | May be a thing we can look into on F10
> | Chris
> |
>
> Chris,
>
> Here is a script I use to get better battery life on my T60p. You might
> need to modify it a little.
>
> http://kdekorte.blogspot.com/2008/06/thinkpad-t60p-acpi-script.html
>
> Kevin
>
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[Tom]

On Wednesday 25 June 2008 04:29:50 pm Fastie wrote:
> Thanks I am sending this right away..
> May be a thing we can look into on F10
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Andrew Farris  wrote:
> > Fastie wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have been working on Fedora since Core 6, and found that now I've
> > > moved i've had to start using my battery more on my laptop than I used
> > > to. So my battery just doesn't last. I  got myself a replacement
> > > thinking that my battery is dead but still had the same result.
> > > I am running an HP NC6320 laptop with nothing extra (clean install). My
> > > brightness is on the lowest setting.
> > > I went through my services and stopped all the ones I don't need and
> > > installed powertop and did what it told me to do, (but it is not
> > > permanent for one).
> > > According to HP my battery should last about 4 hours, however I only get
> > > about 1.5 hours if I am lucky. I have to say when I was testing this on
> > > Windows I did not get 4 hours as HP say but got about 3 hours. So
> > > running Fedora cut my battery time in half.
> > > One thing I did see on powertop is that my "Wakeups-from-idle per
> > > second" is
> > > running at "669.1    interval: 10.0s", this looks high. How do you
> > > reduce this?
> > > Is there anything else I can do to get more battery power out of it?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Chris
> >
> > Since noone jumped on this message right away, you might want to resend
> > it to the fedora-laptop-list where an issue like this might get better
> > attention.  I only run Fedora in virtual machines on my macbook (where
> > osx is effectively still handling the power management), so I can't make
> > any suggestions that would really help.
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list

Thanks, sub'd, hadn't even occurred to me an I had a laptop for a year 
now. FWIW, T61, all Intel, 4 hours bat (when the power goes out). But that's 
with a 9cell optional bat.  Goes to dim screen anytime it's not plug'd in. 
Which is almost always.  Other than that, an my external router/modem (ATU-R) 
are on my old UPS/line power, bat time is about 4 hrs.  Longest it ever took 
CC to get the power back on. Recently, when a truck took down a pole.