nrundy
October 17th, 2011, 08:42 PM
Interesting article from The H-Online helped me understand why Linux is having so much trouble with battery life and running hot these days.
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Comment-Untapped-power-saving-potential-1361906.html
The author proposes a way to find out which hardware has bugs that prevent power-saving features from remaining active but it requires distributors to develop a small application to check whether a system can support RC6 et. al. Hopefully Ubuntu can get on this and issue something for Oneiric soon. I desperately want to keep using Oneiric, but it's battery life is awful.
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Comment-Untapped-power-saving-potential-1361906.html
The author proposes a way to find out which hardware has bugs that prevent power-saving features from remaining active but it requires distributors to develop a small application to check whether a system can support RC6 et. al. Hopefully Ubuntu can get on this and issue something for Oneiric soon. I desperately want to keep using Oneiric, but it's battery life is awful.