vimfuego
December 22nd, 2012, 11:32 PM
Hi All,
Over the years I've tried various installs of Ubuntu, but the one thing that stops me using Ubuntu as my main OS is the lack of (or user error) ability to preserve battery life on laptops. I don't know if the issue is not having manufacturer specific drivers for graphics cards etc, but I've found battery life is generally one third of that of the same laptop running Win.
Which leads me to my next question, I am setting up a Home Theatre PC, I want to run Ubuntu on it, but I need to know from the Ubuntu community if it will be able to manage the computers power drain correctly. I planned on leaving the computer on 24/7 so obviously I don't want to be running the CPU and GPU at full steam if it's just sitting there idle.
So I suppose my two questions are:
1 - Does 12.04 have good power management for CPU & GPU?
2 - If so, only when specific Linux drivers are provided by the manufacturer?
Thanks.
Over the years I've tried various installs of Ubuntu, but the one thing that stops me using Ubuntu as my main OS is the lack of (or user error) ability to preserve battery life on laptops. I don't know if the issue is not having manufacturer specific drivers for graphics cards etc, but I've found battery life is generally one third of that of the same laptop running Win.
Which leads me to my next question, I am setting up a Home Theatre PC, I want to run Ubuntu on it, but I need to know from the Ubuntu community if it will be able to manage the computers power drain correctly. I planned on leaving the computer on 24/7 so obviously I don't want to be running the CPU and GPU at full steam if it's just sitting there idle.
So I suppose my two questions are:
1 - Does 12.04 have good power management for CPU & GPU?
2 - If so, only when specific Linux drivers are provided by the manufacturer?
Thanks.