Re: Battery Status on Dell I.2650 (con't)

From: Jim (james_at_the-computer-shop.co.uk)
Date: 07/12/05

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    geronimo wrote:
    > ok jim ... how is this 'manual power management' done ?? i've read on
    > some
    > of the groups about writing 'apmcontinue' scripts ?? or have you
    > abandoned
    > this process as well ?? i'm also assuming you have a laptop/notebook
    > computer ??
    >

    yup, basically it's just event management on lid closure and timings, ie
    HD/display/suspend timeouts. It's all in the howtos and it's all pretty
    succinctly explained in there. Manually setting such features is as easy
    as running something like hdparm, which is a Linux IDE disk utility that
    lets you set spin-down timeouts and other disk parameters. It works also
    for some SCSI features.

    For a walkthrough with script examples, check out
    http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Ecology-HOWTO/ecology-howto-about.html
    otherwise your favourite distribution will have specific examples of
    power management settings.

    Also consider jumping into BIOS settings to disable things like IRDA,
    parallel, PCMCIA, 1394 or other unused ports (pretty much the only ports
    I use on this laptop are the two usb and one PCMCIA port, so every other
    port is disabled - increasing battery uptime by almost 30%). Most power
    management starts in the BIOS and being basically Jewish about what
    runs, daemon-wise and app wise, on the machine. Big plus of that is
    you're not waiting on spare cycles to get done what you need to get done. 

    -- 
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