Power management is pathetic

[c-m]

I'm running LXDE Mint 12 on my netbook and having a big issue with power saving/power management. Basically it's just pathetic.

When on battery, there is no option to shut down the laptop after being left for a certain time. It can be set to go to sleep (say after 15mins), yet every time this has happened, whenever I come back to the computer the batter is dead, and needs recharging.

This is putting many more cycles through my battery unnecessarily.

Is there no decent power management function for LXDE at all?

As a netbook it's a well known chip-set and well supported in linux, so there really isn't any excuse.

I'm mildly annoyed

[wayne128]

I'm mildly annoyed

Try jupiter

in doubt, try fuduntu , which has jupiter already installed.

in some of my earlier tests, I recall:
1. Mint10 run reasonably well on battery..
it is warm compare to win7 ( always cool and battery long lasting)
2. Mint11 cook. 10+ degree more, cannot put on the lap
3. tested with jupiter plus kernel argument to bring down temp, yet it is warm to hot
4. run fuduntu with jupiter, run as cool as ( slightly warmer to) win7.

never tested any Mint12 on this laptop.

[c-m]

Thanks, will take a look.

Battery life from the default 3 cell battery is just over 3 hours in Mint 12 which is pretty good considering it's about 3 years old.

[nunol]

Here are some ideas:
- install gnome-power-manager or xfce4-power manager.
- install laptop-mode-tools (config: /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf and /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/). Here are some configs: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... or-debian/
- the Jupiter ppa
- Make sure CPU Frequency Scaling is working
- etc

[NarcT]

I configured my laptop to always be in powersave mode and increased my battery life greatly. You could try this by changing the pm-utils scripts to never turn off. I wrote a tutorial to help. Good luck!

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[KBD47]

Run top in a terminal and make sure you don't have a udev problem, udev will cause your cpu to run at 100% this is an issue for some laptops:
http://areyoueye.net/?p=143
It also affects my D255E aspire one. Very hard on the battery.
KBD47