making Ubuntu easy

[Florian Diesch]

"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-25-05 at 22:23 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
>
>     > What is the problem with power management and Linux anyway?  My laptop's
>     > batteries can't be seen, for example, and the system is always firing on
>     > all cylinders sucking power like....  OK.  I'll stop with the simile
>     > here this time.
>
>
>
>
>     Surprisingly general and lacking on details for one with as much tech
>     savvy as you, Michael :)
>
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> Well the problem is pretty much universal in my experience.  An old Sony
> laptop, a new Dell laptop and several PC workstations of various ages have
> essentially no ACPI interaction at all under Breezy.  It's difficult for me to
> be specific.

On my Thinkpad R40 everything is working fine now. When it was new (about
3 or 4 years ago) there have been some problems with IBM's ACPI
implementation so it only worked using APM. back than battery lifetime
was about the same as what I heard from people using Windows on the some
machine (about 4 to 5 hours; now it's only about 1.5 hours)
Now battery state is more or less accurate and powernowd is taking
it down to 600 Mhz most of the time but giving me 1300 Mhz instantly if
needed.

Even on my old desktop box (K6 II, doesn't have APCI, only APM) suspend
to disk is working without problems.


> It's hard to give a specific report on such a vague set of symptoms across such
> a wide range of platforms.

I guess an exact description what's not working and the result of lshw
is enough. 


   Florian
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