14 Aug
2012
14 Aug
'12
10:05 a.m.
On 14/08/2012, at 17:44, "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Toby Corkindale wrote:
It's not some bloke at the pub - it's the laptop manufacturer. You'd hope they knew best.
Well, I trust the independent battery expert guy, then the battery vendor, *then* the laptop vendor :-) But point taken.
You must have missed Graeme's post the other day then - he mentioned a utility that provides this functionality. tp_smapi.
Yes, sorry. I wrote the above reply before I got to the tp_smapi post this morning.
Intel's powertop package has been invaluable to me in the past to determine what is waking up a Linux laptop, and increasing battery lifetime by following its recommendations