Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:06:26 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Battery life on Lenovo X60s |
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Casper Bruun wrote: > Hello > > I and many others are having problems with battery life on the Lenovo > X60s laptop. > > There have been several threads concerning this on Nabble, thinkwiki > and many other Linux sites, and the problem has always been the same: > Linux draw significantly more power than XP on this particular laptop. > > Everything known about the problem is summarized here: > http://www.nabble.com/thinkpad-x60-Battery-Life--!-t1971716.html > > I am posting here as a last resort, as I simply have no idea where > else to ask. What could possibly be causing this? > > As I am not very technical, I'm not sure what other information you > need to look into this. Tell me if you need need config files, logs or > anything. > > Can someone please look into this? Any help would be greatly appreciated! > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
The test results supposedly show that the CPU speed isn't being reduced when the kernel thinks it is. It looks like that test was using speedstep-centrino as the scaling driver, you may want to see if acpi-cpufreq works instead.
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