On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:06, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 7/28/2003 16:22 +0100, you wrote:
> Seems like a reasonable idea, but my experience has been exactly the > opposite. On a Toshiba Portégé 7200CTe, and on a Toshiba Satellite Pro > 4260DVD, over the course of a few months battery life in Windows (even with > all possible drivers loaded and updated and optimized) dwindled down to > about 20 minutes, while Linux got the expected 1.8 to 2.0 hours out of them. > One of the things that I failed to mention yesterday is that ACPI SEEMS to be working better with 2.4.21 which MAY provide better results than APM. We did this to (successfully) resolve shutdown problems on a couple of desktops but have not installed it on any laptops. Also, with APM the best battery performance MIGHT be achieved by loading APM on boot which is not done in the default kernel. I believe, however, that the Dell and Toshiba laptop BIOS modules are compiled (as modules) by default. As for the Vaio, the system specific Programmable I/O control device remains "Experimental." It is compiled as a module by default but I have no idea if it is effective. I THINK that the best results MIGHT be achieved with a custom compiled kernel if the user is diligent careful with each and every option. At the same time, one can get rid of unnecessary stuff and make other adjustments that are compiled in by default. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
