Improving power consumption on my KDE (opensuse 12.2)

alaios · 10-17-2012, 08:26 PM

Dear all,
I have noticed that on my laptop (ACER Aspire 7736) the battery lasts less in my opensuse 12.2 compared to the windows.

I am using kde as an environment and probably this might be needing more cpu power. Could you please give me your hints on what I can do/check for improving

the power consumption?

One more think that I am also thinking is that the drivers for my G210m graphics card are not so good to support power saving modes of operation.

What would you do in my case?

Regards
Alex

TobiSGD · 10-18-2012, 06:53 AM

Disable the desktop effects, disable file indexing, use Yast to install the proprietary video drivers, have a look at the power-saving options, especially CPU frequency scaling.

JaseP · 10-18-2012, 08:41 AM

There's an applet called jupiter that is very good with power management, helping make adjustments on the fly, according to your preferences. The only problem is that it runs on Mono (for if you have an objection to that)...

Take a look here;
http://www.jupiterapplet.org/

It's integrated within the Fuduntu distro;
http://www.fuduntu.org/

alaios · 10-18-2012, 10:20 AM

Mono? Is this related to LXDE , XFCE or KDE?

Regards
Alex

TobiSGD · 10-18-2012, 10:31 AM

Mono is a free implementation of the.Net framework. Some people have political issues to use it, because they think that it may be sometime in the future used by Microsoft to stranglehold Linux.

fewt · 10-18-2012, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JaseP

There's an applet called jupiter that is very good with power management, helping make adjustments on the fly, according to your preferences. The only problem is that it runs on Mono (for if you have an objection to that)...

Take a look here;
http://www.jupiterapplet.org/

It's integrated within the Fuduntu distro;
http://www.fuduntu.org/

Jupiter dropped the mono applet for a python applet months ago.

JaseP · 10-19-2012, 04:32 PM

Well, there you go alaios,... right from the developer himself!!! No mono...

Thanks, fewt...

fewt · 10-19-2012, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JaseP

Well, there you go alaios,... right from the developer himself!!! No mono...

Thanks, fewt...

Sure thing.