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[Brett Howard <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should be able to get much better than 2 hours.  With my standard
6 cell pack I'm getting around 4.5 hours and with my 9 cell pack I get
about an additional 7 hours.  Thats with wifi on and browsing the
web/reading and writing documentation with the display at near min
brightness.  Things go down from there if I turn the brightness up or
if I'm running FPGA simulations but thats a decent midpoint to explain
what should be possible.  I'm using the Intel card only and I've
hacked the bios to allow for static video switching (you no longer
have to do this but for me it was the cleaner method when I got
started).  I gotta admit I flat out LOVE this computer!

~Brett

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Travis Reeder <travis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is this stuff in any apt repo/ppa?
> Also, does any of this increase battery life?  The sub 2 hours I'm getting
> is driving me batty.
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Craig S. Blackie <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> It's great to see full functionality finally, shame we don't have
>> Bumblebee to complete it. I'd like to thank all the contributors for  taking
>> their time to make this happen.
>>
>> I'm having one issue though, I have VPCZ11C5E and don't get the Lid
>> behaviour options with sony-laptop-zseries, version 0.9np8pre3. Does anyone
>> else have this issue?
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:31 -0700, Brett Howard wrote:
>>
>> Add me to the list of success stories...  I've also added the
>> sony-acpid utility that allows the light sensor to work and all..
>>
>> The battery save function was a welcome change!  I'm using a
>> VPC-Z12CGX/x and running the 3.0 kernel.
>>
>> Thanks for all your help gentlemen!
>>
>> ~Brett
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I have build a new pre release of sony-laptop-zseries, version
>> > 0.9np8pre3
>> > with *loads* of changes.
>> >
>> > WARNING: this is only for 2.6.39 and above WARNING
>> >
>> > First there are the patches from Adam to support newer laptops.
>> >
>> > But I also included patches from Marco Chiappero which finally allows
>> > you to:
>> >        - turn on/off the CD
>> >        - control the behaviour when the lid is opened
>> >        - set the battery care function (!!!)
>> >        - in some cases manage the acceleration
>> >        - in some cases manage the kbd backlight ALS
>> > In the future the patches of Marco might (will hopefully) end up
>> > in main line.
>> >
>> > I have merged the changes for led/speed/stamina on off into the current
>> > kernel version plus Marco's patches.
>> >
>> > Please give it a try:
>> >
>> > http://www.logic.at/people/preining/software/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np8pre3.tar.gz
>> >
>> > Best wishes
>> >
>> > Norbert
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
>> > JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live & Debian Developer
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