laptop battery life

[helane]

sounds great... it warms up too fast anyways. should probably clean it. 
how do i do it though... should install something?

helane.

Tom Mckay wrote:
> Also, you can reconfigure the gnome panel CPU frequency panel to allow
> you to control the clock speed on your CPUs. Unless necessary, crank
> the clock speed down low, and you'll find it will save you a lot of
> battery as well... not to mention your laptop will run significantly
> cooler as a result.
>
> On 10/31/07, Ralph Pichie <thevillagegeek at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It's always helpful to check for extra services that may be running and
>> accessing your hard disk or other devices. That will kill battery life. Make
>> sure that your wireless connection (ath0) and Bluetooth are deactivated,
>> unless you need them. Reduce your screen brightness, when possible. That
>> should stretch your battery life considerably.
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>> On 10/31/07, ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com <
>> ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com> On Tue, 2007-30-10 at
>> 22:44 -0700, helane wrote:
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>>> i have laptop compaq presario v3000. just a couple of weeks ago i
>>> switched to new ubuntu, and then last week my battery started showing as
>>> "old/broken". it would charge but would not give me only about an hour
>>> on it. i used the laptop extensively in the last year so thought it was
>>> an old battery. i bought a new certified one - 12 cell, hoping it would
>>> give me even more time than the last one. i plugged it in, it came 50%
>>> charged showing 50 minutes. it charges fast... it went to 77% in 20
>>> minutes but now shows again 55 minutes on 77%. the percentage seem to go
>>> up the time does not as fast... now it went to 80% still showing 55 min.
>>> on the old battery i used to get 2.5 hrs on the new one i was supposed
>>> to ~5 hrs. not sure if something else is broken, or the linux shows
>>> wrong time... any ideas? i really appreciate it. spend a lot of money on
>>> a new battery... no happy about it.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> helane.
>>>
>>>       
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