Battery problem

[tyfius]

Hi, I'm new here and yes I've been through the search but havent found what I was looking for.

I have a HP Pavilion ze4300 notebook, and installed Fedora Core2.
The problem is that according to my kernel acpi is installed, but my 3hour battery only lasts for about 1 hour.

Does anyone knows what I can do to make my battery last longer ?

ps: I'm a linux beginner, so keep in mind that if you start using terms, i probably need to think twice before I get them

tnx

[jeremy1701]

It depends a lot on what window manager you're using. I get much longer life out of my laptop simply using even Gnome rather then KDE, even though I prefer KDE. Make sure you're not running any processes that you don't need as well, and that any deamons that you're not using are not running.

Jeremy

[tyfius]

ow, it's Gnome 2.6 i think. Version included in the fedore cd's I downloaded.

[jeremy1701]

Do some research on the hdparm command. That may help you out, but be careful.

Jeremy

[imdeemvp]

i got a compaq and it life time is 3 hours..using gnome