KDE Battery Consumption on Netbook

[barakatax]

Greetings,

Could someone here please tell me how to make KDE less battery consumption as I feel that my netbook battery power is run out quick enough? Removing some application I guess??


Regards,
barakatax

[T6]

i see that too on my netbook

i set the power parameters to turn off screen after 5 minutes in the battery icon near the clock on the taskbar, you can find many profiles and options there that can be edited or selected

i have some problems with hibernation and keyboard not waking up so i disabled that option, you must test it to see if it helps you or not

my system is not doing cpu stepping, i haven't done any test to see if it helps or not or if it is possible, since this is a atom i don't know if that helps to battery life, a atom is really effective running fast and saving power

i only see around 30 minutes lost compared to xp on battery and i think it is the wireless card on xp i have disabled but not on linux, i have to do more tests, lately all i use on the netbook is ethernet adapter and headphones to surf web and watch some videos and listen some music

[marian]

You should try PowerTOP. It's in the repo.
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

[7272andy]

I just checked and it's no longer in the repo

Regards

[menotu]

I believe PowerTOP is in the "testing" section of the repo, but obviously installing apps from testing comes with some risk - how much risk for PowerTOP I don't know.........

[7272andy]

oops, I forgot to look there

Andy

[Texstar]

powertop doesn't work properly with our kernel because it requires debug code in the kernel we remove the debug code to make it lean mean and fast.

[7272andy]

OK, cheers for the heads up Tex

Regards
Andy

[menotu]

powertop doesn't work properly with our kernel because it requires debug code in the kernel we remove the debug code to make it lean mean and fast.

I have seen it listed in the Testing folder for a while now and had guessed there was something preventing it from being added to the "main" listings, and now I know why - thanks Tex.