As another point of reference, I can watch 720p movies for around 1,5 hour using the Intel card with medium to higher brightness on my 14 months old battery, so you definately should get more than 2 hours.
2011/8/2 Brett Howard <[email protected]>: > You should be able to get much better than 2 hours. With my standard > 6 cell pack I'm getting around 4.5 hours and with my 9 cell pack I get > about an additional 7 hours. Thats with wifi on and browsing the > web/reading and writing documentation with the display at near min > brightness. Things go down from there if I turn the brightness up or > if I'm running FPGA simulations but thats a decent midpoint to explain > what should be possible. I'm using the Intel card only and I've > hacked the bios to allow for static video switching (you no longer > have to do this but for me it was the cleaner method when I got > started). I gotta admit I flat out LOVE this computer! > > ~Brett > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Travis Reeder <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is this stuff in any apt repo/ppa? >> Also, does any of this increase battery life? The sub 2 hours I'm getting >> is driving me batty. >> >> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Craig S. Blackie <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> It's great to see full functionality finally, shame we don't have >>> Bumblebee to complete it. I'd like to thank all the contributors for taking >>> their time to make this happen. >>> >>> I'm having one issue though, I have VPCZ11C5E and don't get the Lid >>> behaviour options with sony-laptop-zseries, version 0.9np8pre3. Does anyone >>> else have this issue? >>> >>> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:31 -0700, Brett Howard wrote: >>> >>> Add me to the list of success stories... I've also added the >>> sony-acpid utility that allows the light sensor to work and all.. >>> >>> The battery save function was a welcome change! I'm using a >>> VPC-Z12CGX/x and running the 3.0 kernel. >>> >>> Thanks for all your help gentlemen! >>> >>> ~Brett >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Norbert Preining <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi everyone, >>> > >>> > I have build a new pre release of sony-laptop-zseries, version >>> > 0.9np8pre3 >>> > with *loads* of changes. >>> > >>> > WARNING: this is only for 2.6.39 and above WARNING >>> > >>> > First there are the patches from Adam to support newer laptops. >>> > >>> > But I also included patches from Marco Chiappero which finally allows >>> > you to: >>> > - turn on/off the CD >>> > - control the behaviour when the lid is opened >>> > - set the battery care function (!!!) >>> > - in some cases manage the acceleration >>> > - in some cases manage the kbd backlight ALS >>> > In the future the patches of Marco might (will hopefully) end up >>> > in main line. >>> > >>> > I have merged the changes for led/speed/stamina on off into the current >>> > kernel version plus Marco's patches. >>> > >>> > Please give it a try: >>> > >>> > http://www.logic.at/people/preining/software/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np8pre3.tar.gz >>> > >>> > Best wishes >>> > >>> > Norbert >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> > Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} >>> > JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer >>> > DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> > FAIRYMOUNT (vb.n.) >>> > Polite word for buggery. >>> > --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series >>> > Post to : [email protected] >>> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series >>> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
