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Battery Powered Linux Mini-HOWTO
David Lechnyr
| Revision History | ||
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| Revision 2.3 | 2003-06-29 | Revised by: drl |
| Updated document content and structure | ||
| Revision 2.0 | 2002-10-08 | Revised by: drl |
| Major updates and conversion to DocBook SGML | ||
| Revision 1.0 | 1997-12-21 | Revised by: hm |
| Initial draft by Hanno Muller <kontakt@hanno.de> | ||
This document describes how to optimize and configure power management on a ready-configured Linux system for use on battery-powered laptops. This will be helpful for everyone who runs Linux on a portable computer system. APM/ACPI methods of power management are discussed along with power saving tips and techniques. There is also some discussion about the different types of batteries available.
- Table of Contents
- 1. Power Management
- 2. Power Management Techniques
- 2.1. Suspend to Disk
- 2.2. hdparm Tuning
- 2.3. syslog Tuning
- 2.4. XF86Config Tuning
- 2.5. Energy Star
- 2.6. Swapfile Tuning
- 2.7. /tmp Tuning
- 2.8. Miscellaneous Tuning
- 2.9. Power Saving Myths
- 3. Types of Batteries
- 4. Appendix
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