thinkpad x60 Battery Life?(CoreDuo freq scaling problem?)

[Matthew Kuiken]

Martin Willemoes Hansen wrote:
> El dom, 29-10-2006 a las 12:05 -0800, Ari El escribió:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>>    I've been having the same battery life problem in my X60s for many
>> months, with Dapper, and now the same with Edgy.
> 
> I can report the same with my HP nc4200, usually I got 3½ hours now I
> only get about 1 hour.
> 
> Best regards

I have no idea if it is related, but my Sony Vaio doesn't do power save 
well with the generic kernel.  I installed the -386 kernel, and the 
on-demand power mode now sits at 1/2 speed most of the time, with 
occasional spikes to full speed.  With the generic kernel, it was almost 
always at full speed, with very occasional dips to 1/2.  The heat is 
much less now, too.

I just realized, though.  You two probably won't want to use the -386 
kernel, as I don't think it does SMP.  It might be a useful test anyway, 
just to see if the power management works better.

-Matt