poor battery life on medion i5 processor.

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#1

hello everyone, would like some ideas on this. I am dualbooting opensuse12.2 64 bit with windows 7 home premium 64bit SP1 installed. I have a dedicated nvidia geoforce gt540m 1GB card. 1TB hard drive and 8 gig ram. The problem is that when I am running Opensuse my battery life is on a fully charged battery is 1 hr 50m. When I am running Windoze it is 3hrs 30mins. I am not running any memory intensive programmes. I thought my first battery was no good and medion replaced it as I have had the laptop only 6 months!! but the new one is no different. Any help or ideas gratefully accepted - I am running the laptop on very low settings for screen brightness etc.

On a personal note, Merry Christmas everyone.

#2

Here are a few things that might be helpful:

C.F.U. - CPU Frequency Utility - Version 1.20 - For use with the cpufrequtils package: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/c-f-u-cpu-frequency-utilitiy-version-1-10-use-cpufrequtils-package-40/

AND

YaST Power Management - Control Your CPU Energy Usage How To & FAQ: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/yast-power-management-control-your-cpu-energy-usage-how-faq-28/

AND

GNU/Linux and openSUSE power management regressions: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/oldcpu/gnu-linux-opensuse-power-management-regressions-38/

And using a new kernel can also help: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.7.1.tar.bz2

S.A.K.C. - SUSE Automated Kernel Compiler - Version 2.78: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/s-k-c-suse-automated-kernel-compiler-version-2-50-34/

Thank You,

#3

It seems to be yet another Optimus system:

Medion Akoya P6631, i5-2410M, 4GB RAM, 640GB, GT540M @Dealizon

https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/481698-how-switch-graphic-card-opensuse-12-2-a.html

If you don’t need bumblebee go for bbswitch only, that will give you at least 50% longer battery life.

#4

On 2012-12-25 16:36, hank se wrote:
> It seems to be yet another Optimus system:

That alone could explain the problem, if the machine while on battery
uses the nvidia side instead of the intel graphics.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))