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[Rutger Hendriks <rutgerhendriks@xxxxxxxxx>]

As another point of reference, I can watch 720p movies for around 1,5
hour using the Intel card with medium to higher brightness on my 14
months old battery, so you definately should get more than 2 hours.

2011/8/2 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
>>> > DSA: 0x09C5B094   fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76  A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094
>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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