On 11/03/2013 12:58 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
On 11 March 2013 00:59, Steven Haigh <net...@crc.id.au> wrote:On 11/03/2013 1:13 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Steven Haigh <net...@crc.id.au> wrote:On 11/03/13 00:52, Akemi Yagi wrote:On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Steven Haigh <net...@crc.id.au> wrote:Not sure if this has come in from upstream or something local, but it looks like CONFIG_EEEPC_LAPTOP is no longer set in the kernel config. This reduces battery life significantly on Asus EEEPCs loading with linux. Kernel is: kernel-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 Install is fresh from the SL6.4 Beta 2 iso.I don't think CONFIG_EEEPC_LAPTOP was ever enabled in the TUV (therefore SL as well) kernel. Just for a reference, the CentOSPlus kernel has it enabled. But that is a custom kernel, not a distro one.Its a bit strange here... the 32 bit kernel has it enabled and built as a module. The 64 bit kernel has it disabled. I'm not quite sure why that is...You are quite right. I only checked the 64-bit kernel.The problem with this is as it stands (no module for the eeepc), it gets ~3.5 hours on battery vs Windows 7 which gets nearly 5 hours. The 'SHE' function provided by this module is paramount to getting any kind of decent battery life on the Asus EEEPC laptop range.Please open a bug report, upstream. [1] Then, as a temporary measure, consider using the kernel-lt package from the ELRepo Project. [2] CONFIG_EEEPC_LAPTOP is configured as a module is both 32- and 64-bit flavours. Alan. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/frontpage.cgi [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt
Ahhhh - thanks Alan, I wasn't aware of the elrepo kernels. Saves me a lot of messing around ;)
I'll still BZ it though... -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299
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