Hi
Sounds like my ASUS 1000HE netbook which rarely gets turned off and used
every day , it’s about 2 years old and the battery is still at 93%
giving almost 6 hours of battery time… It gets a hard time when we
are away and I’m running osc to build stuff Aside from that its
mainly surfing the net.
My Toshiba Tecra M3 (brought in 2005) battery lasted about 3.5 years
before it needed replacing.
Both machines run SLED and openSUSE exclusively, windows is there but
never used…just sucking up some disk space…
there is a good power management application in linux called “Jupiter” and i installed it on my ubuntu 11.10 and it work fine. is it possible to install this app on openSUSE? i searched in openSUSE website for downloading and installing this app but i found nothing.
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> there is a good power management application in linux called “Jupiter”
> and i installed it on my ubuntu 11.10 and it work fine. is it possible
> to install this app on openSUSE? i searched in openSUSE website for
> downloading and installing this app but i found nothing.
>
There are archticture independent rpm files on sourceforge (I never tried
jupiter so I don’t know if they work well). http://sourceforge.net/projects/jupiter/files/
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PC: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420
| 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.2 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
Hi, thanks. This is what I want. That will be great if battery can be alive for 3 years with opensuse. By the way, is there anyone using thinkpad X220 with opensuse? I see there is a thread about X220. Just wish quick short review here.
Maybe I should make it more clearly. I do worry that linux damage the battery, but it is not what I concern most. I more concern that the linux system drain down the battery more quickly. As we know, laptop battery is expensive.
If you use a Thinkpad laptop you can use tp_smapi to control the charge thresholds of the battery. I have used openSUSE 11.1 and 11.2 on a Thinkpad X60s and found that the battery generally lasted about 15-20mins less then it did when I used Win XP but then the battery has also degraded a little during that time. I skipped oS11.3 and now on 11.4 my battery has really passed it useful life (it’s just over 5 years old) and only has 30% of it’s capacity.
From the beginning of using oS I placed the following code in my boot.local file to control the charge thresholds to prevent the battery from being charged to 100% while working with it connected to the AC adaptor. Lion batteries don’t like being kept 100% charged.
This keeps the battery topped between 65% and 85%.
I also have a shortcut icon on my desktop to a script to fully charge the battery if I know I’m going to need to use the laptop away from power for an extended period.
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script forces a full battery charge.
# Useful for when you require a full charge when travelling to maximise the time on battery power.
#
echo 95 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh
echo 100 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh
exit
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I have an Acer Aspire AS7745G and recently, I installed OpenSUSE 12.1 on it.
But on the KDE desktop I can’t view the icon battery, it is missing.
I try installing GNOME desktop but the icon battery also is missing.
So, I don’t know when it is charging, I don’t know wich it is their time life.
I have been lookink for in Google but I don’t found nothing.
You will still need to replace your battery every 2-3 years no matter how hard you try to make it last longer.
I think batteries are becoming way too expensive. For example I have a laptop and the company wants like $150 for a new one. No way. I am just going to plug it on power and will not replace it.
Aside from that its