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What linux distribution is less power hungry than ubuntu 12.04?
My notebook is a Compaq Pressario CQ71. The battery life is like 1:45 h. When Win Vista was installed on it, it was like 3 h. Now I like Linux more, but this distribution (ubuntu 12.04) is consumes ...
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Change brightness automatically depending on power source in 12.04
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a HP G61. When I used to use Windows in this machine, my screen to autodimmed when unplugging AC (i.e. running on battery), and brightness was restored when plugged again. ...
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Laptop running Ubuntu battery management issues
I am a newbie to Ubuntu (after dumping 3 other distros) and have seen a terrible battery management from Ubuntu.
I use a HP DV7 17" 8 gb ram beast with about 30 minutes of battery power since I ...
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How does 13.04 stack up to 12.04 in terms of battery life?
I've been having some issues with battery life, perhaps due in part to the age of the battery, but I'd like to squeeze out every last minute I can. I've heard that 13.04 is developed with mobile ...
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Laptop charging speed reduced after installing Ubuntu 12.04
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my laptop, previously running Windows 7. After the battery is out, I charges my laptop, then the battery have been full next day.
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battery indicate 6% (6 min) but it last for 1 hr
after full charge indicates 99% and around 2 hr but few minutes later it drops to 6% but it last for 1.5 hr. Its anoying cause I don't know when the laptop stops.
Glad to receive any advise!
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Laptop battery is not recognized in Ubuntu 12.04
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop. Ubuntu does not recognize the battery, even though the battery is connected.
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Asus EEE PC 1015CX freezing on battery
I have a ASUS EEE PC 1015CX with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
All works fine when netbook is powered on AC.
But If it runs on battery, it regulary freezes (process Xorg goes up to 90% CPU)
Any help, what should ...
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Toshiba L650 Laptop battery meter on 12.04 Unity 2D
I'm running 12.04 Unity 2D as a VMware VM in a Toshiba L650 Laptop.
Thing is I am not able to get a battery meter displayed on the Menu bar on top.
Not having any options for the same in ...
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Battery life on Zenbook UX51 Ubuntu 12.10
My battery life is 2h30m in my Ubuntu 12.10 but in Windows I had 7h00
I installed jupiter, nothing changed. What can I do?
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How can I prevent my laptop auto suspend (due to critically low battery) from looping?
I have an Acer Aspire 5750G on Ubuntu 12.04LTS and I've got a problem:
Battery critically low > suspend > wake up instantly (I don't touch ANYTHING) > suspend > wake up.... power outage > dead.
I've ...
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Mouse and touchpad freeze without power supply
I have a fresh installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my HP ProBook.
My external mouse and my touchpad freeze in battery mode. I can reinitialize them with Ctrl + Alt + 1 and back to 7. As long as I move the ...
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Internet on wireless doesn't work without charger
My laptop is running on Ubuntu 12.04. Since last few days, I am facing a strange problem (some may even call me crazy after reading this). My laptop is Acer Aspire 5755 (specifications - just in case)
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How can I save my laptops battery from draining? [duplicate]
I am using ubuntu 12.04 (switched from windows 8 recently) and I am finding that this OS is draining my laptops battery like anything (works only like 70% of windows).
I also found this interesting ...
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/can you install ubuntu to hdd but it runs completely from ram while hdd is not spinning?
my main purpose is to be able to install ubuntu to the hard disc so that my settings and everything are saved but i want it to load itself to my ram for faster operation and better battery life while ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS drains my Samsung Series 9 900X3C ultrabook's battery extremely fast. Is there anything I can do to fix that?
The title basically says it all. My Samsung Series 9 900X3C ultrabook's battery is in the deep red around barely three hours after disconnecting it from the power - and during most of that time the ...
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Why is Power Statistics showing grossly incorrect battery power? [closed]
Energy when full - 231.7 Wh
Energy(design) - 81.2 Wh
This also results in an incorrect value for Percentage - 31.3%
This also conflicts with Time to full field (Thankfully !)
I have never seen ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 is hogging the battery power
I was using my computer the other day on my kitchen side. I wanted to move to the sofa and so I took the power cable out. I took about ten seconds to get to the sofa and plug it in and when I checked ...
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Battery status not shown on Asus K53E - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I have Asus K53E. My OS is Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. When I installed Ubuntu, battery status was shown but after a month it stopped working. Now I'm not warned if battery level is low or something happens. ...
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Dell Inspiron 5720 battery manager?
Is there anything like battery charge manager in Ubuntu 12.04 for my Dell Inspiron 5720? I mean some program, that I can set so that it stops laptop from charging when it's above 80% of battery charge ...
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Battery died when updating from 12.04 to 12.10
I started the update and went to sleep but I forgot to plugin AC adapter.
When i woke up, laptop was off. I plugged in the AC cord and turned it on.
Ubuntu boots and it is on 12.10 but may items ...
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Hp dv6z(AMD version 3243cl) over heat & Battery Drain
I am new here on Ubuntu(12.04 x64)!
The problem I am facing here is very less battery life and constant noise of fan during use of my laptop!
Laptop has AMD Phoneme II processor,6 gb ram ,Amd radeon ...
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The battery indicator& Power setting panel shows wrong battery state
My laptop is Thinkpad E420 with Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit installed, the kernel version is 3.2.0-33-generic.
I have set the battery threshold as 60% via windows7. It seems that the threshold auto effected ...
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Laptop drains of quickly with battery
I am a user since years in ubuntu and I have not come across this problem with ubuntu till date.
My battery drains off immediately after I unplug my AC power.
The options I tried:
1) checked the ...
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How do you force the power management (battery icon) to stay in the top bar?
Changing the power options doesn't seem to work - No matter what I change the option to, the power management refuses to show in the top bar.
Using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, upgraded from 11.10.
Is ...
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12.04 hangs at “checking battery state”
My 12.04 system hangs at "Checking battery state". At this stage, no commands work eg: Ctrl+Alt+f1, or Alt+f5.
I ran recovery mode, and ran the following commands:
sudo mount -o remount, rw /
sudo ...
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Toshiba L750-22Z. Battery icon missing [duplicate]
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No battery status icon
I bought a Toshiba L750-22Z running Ubuntu 12.04. Everything it's working fine except I can't see the icon of the battery and I never know how ...
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Lenovo Ultrabay Battery for Thinkpad W520
I have seen many people purchasing that accessory for their Lenovo laptops.The problem is that many people are complaining about the fact that even though the OSs are able to see the extra battery ...
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Laptop slows down while charging battery
Laptop Model: Dell Lattitude 5440
OS: Ubuntu 12.04.
While charging my laptop battery i've noticed the following:
Mouse pointer moves very slowly.
computer also slows a bit.
This problem was not ...
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Computer going on sleep on battery Macbook Pro 5.5 [closed]
Hi guys I have experienced something weird on my MacBook pro 5.5. Let me explain what happened. I was surfing on the web using the internal battery of my laptop then the screen started blinking to ...
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Is there a built-in c++ compiler in 12.04? [duplicate]
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Can I use a C/C++ compiler?
I just installed Ubuntu on my laptop because my programming professor insisted on it. This is my first time using Ubuntu. So I had some ...
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Battery Status In Panel Does Not Change Or Give Low Battery Warning (Ubuntu 12.04)
I recently upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 Precise (first point release) on my laptop (an MSI machine). I've resolved several minor issues but can't figure one out and have searched here and on google to ...
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Specific short battery life problem with Sony VAIO laptop
(I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 Bit)
I have some problems with my laptop's (Sony VAIO VPC-F22S1E) battery . It's fullly charging about 3-4 hours (while using) and 2-3 hours (when shutdowned) . And ...
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Battery dies quickly in 12.04 [duplicate]
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Tips to extend battery life for laptops and notebooks
I am new to Ubuntu. I use Samsung laptop. The battery dies quickly while I am using Ubuntu 12.04. The charge holds ...
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Battery not charging beyong a certain percentage
After checking two HP Laptops, one relatively new, only 2 months old and the battery is less than a week old. The other one is about a year old. both have the same issue. The laptop's battery charges ...
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Sound suddenly broken on Ubuntu 12.04
I know there are lots of posts on this, but they don't seem to deal with my problem, so I'm going to start a new thread anyway.
I installed ubuntu 12.04 through wubi a few days ago, and everything ...
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Why does my battery drains fast with Ubuntu in sleep more?
I have an Asus EEE PC 1005HA netbook dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 7. When I close the lid in either OS the laptop will go to sleep. If I do this in Ubuntu and come back to the computer a few days ...
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Satellite L640 Battery Applet Problem
Hayy guy i got a satellite l640 and i installed ubuntu 12.04 on it and i dont get the battery percentage ive tried a fair bit but this is my first time using linux.
Ive gone into the power option and ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't know there's a battery [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The battery indicator in Unity panel not showing up
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Acer Aspire 5553. It's the first time I've used Linux for more than 4 years so ...
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Looking for a decent looking, battery-oriented desktop environment, with transparent panel
I have Ubuntu running on my laptop, and (especially since my laptop specs are a tad bit higher than budget machines) I need to optimize Ubuntu as much as possible to maximize my battery life.
I've ...
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MSI Wind U100 locks up shortly after unplugging and running on battery [closed]
I've got a new install of 12.04 and I've been having lock ups with my MSI U100 whenever I unplug the power cord and run on battery. I've tried out a solution to a similar problem but to no avail. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Battery problem
I have my laptop ( Dell Inspiron 14R) on dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. While using Windows 7, I used to get about 2.5-3 hours on battery fully charged (with my cellphone connected for 3g ...
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Why does my computer go blank after plugging it in?
After permanently switching to Integrated Graphics (Intel) my computer will just have a black screen when I plug it in but it works fine on battery or if it was plugged in when I turned it on. In ...
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Battery Life on a Lenovo ideapad u410 ultrabook
I have bought a Lenovo Ideapad u410 last week. Normally I only use Ubuntu, so I tried to install it. After a few (or a few more ;) ) hours I got it working. I used both systems, Ubuntu and Windows, ...
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Laptop Battery problem
My Compaq Presario CQ42 laptop battery is not working well with Ubuntu 12.04. But there is no problem in Ubuntu 10.04. Sometimes it shows percentage, sometimes remaining time, but charge reduces ...
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Battery indicator shows the wrong battery
I recently bought a secondary battery for my Dell Latitude D620 that fits into the CD drive. There are a couple problems:
First, it drains the secondary battery first. I'm OK with that, but when it ...
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“Battery not present” on Toshiba Satellite L500D
I bought a new battery for my laptop a week ago and it worked fine up until last night when it wouldn't boot up. I plugged in the power lead and it booted but upon booting the battery status indicator ...
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Second battery getting ignored once primary batt drained
If I leave my laptop (HP Elitebook 6930p) running on both batteries, Ubuntu (12.04 but problem existed on 11.10) does a fine and dandy job of using them both up. Watching movies, it stays running for ...
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What is an ACPI GPE storm?
Just experienced a system freeze (no touchpad, no keyboard, screen looked normal), Alt/SysRq/REISUB didn't work, had to press the start button.
In var/log/kern.log I find "ACPI: EC: GPE storm ...
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battery icon / power indicator not shown in menu bar after upgrade to 12.04
Since the upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 the battery icon / power indicator is not shown any more in the menu bar.
I went to 'system settings'-->'power' and tried to set 'show battery status in menu ...
