<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello All, I am noticing that with Ubuntu my battery lasts only half as long as in Windows. I'm getting the same error message as Helane. (Compaq Presario V2000) I think the main reason for this is due to the fact that by default Ubuntu does not have power-saving turned on. So...... Is Kpowersave what people would recommend for me to install? Are there any other powersave applications out there? Thanks! Jane helane wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:47281C56.6060801@o2.pl" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">even more interesting now... installed kpowersave - after unplugging regular battery indicator shows 90% charged - 1h 5m remaining kpowersave shows 90% charged - 4 h 05 m remaining out of curiosity plugged the old "broken" battery regular battery indicator - your battery has very low capacity (49%) which means that it may be old - shows 99% - 1h 10m remaining kpowersave shows 98% charged - 1h 25m remaining which means the battery is bad... but also means the regular indicator is bad...? now the default indicator controls power management... can i turn it off and replace with kpoversave? i am a bit lost. helane wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>