Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

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Subject: Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?
From: T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 22:23:46 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:17 +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote:

> the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4
> hours)  than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?

I bet that your Debian's power saving is not enabled by default. You've 
got to do some preliminary readings on that. E.g., 
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/sysmng/sm03-EnergySaving/
would be a good starting point. 

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