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[Dawid Lorenz <dawid@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 February 2011 03:37, Dante Paz <dante.paz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I could say that on windows 7 my battery life time (I don't know how many
> cells has, but is quite big)  is around 4 to 5 hours.
> On linux instead, the laptop after 30 or 40 minutes turns out quite hot
> (just below the keyboard, at the location where the vga card is sited in),
> and the battery runs out before 2 or 2 1/2 hours.
> It would be really nice to be able to, at least, turn off the nvidia card
> (I'm totally resigned for now to not compile cuda codes :)   )
>

Could you try first two steps from point #3 in following blog post:
http://robbyx.net/blog/?p=190

<http://robbyx.net/blog/?p=190>And tell me whether you get any difference in
battery life?

I'm having some success [1] but not sure if that's right thing to gain
battery life, so I'd like to get confirmation/denial from the other person
having the same laptop as me.

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/hybrid-graphics-linux/msg00471.html

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