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On 11/03/2013 12:58 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> On 11 March 2013 00:59, Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 11/03/2013 1:13 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> On 11/03/13 00:52, Akemi Yagi wrote:
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>>>>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>>>> Not sure if this has come in from upstream or something local, but it
>>>>>> looks
>>>>>> like CONFIG_EEEPC_LAPTOP is no longer set in the kernel config. This
>>>>>> reduces
>>>>>> battery life significantly on Asus EEEPCs loading with linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kernel is: kernel-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64
>>>>>> Install is fresh from the SL6.4 Beta 2 iso.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think CONFIG_EEEPC_LAPTOP was ever enabled in the TUV
>>>>> (therefore SL as well) kernel. Just for a reference, the CentOSPlus
>>>>> kernel has it enabled. But that is a custom kernel, not a distro one.
>>>>
>>>> Its a bit strange here... the 32 bit kernel has it enabled and built as a
>>>> module. The 64 bit kernel has it disabled.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not quite sure why that is...
>>>
>>> You are quite right. I only checked the 64-bit kernel.
>>
>> The problem with this is as it stands (no module for the eeepc), it gets
>> ~3.5 hours on battery vs Windows 7 which gets nearly 5 hours. The 'SHE'
>> function provided by this module is paramount to getting any kind of decent
>> battery life on the Asus EEEPC laptop range.
>
> Please open a bug report, upstream. [1] Then, as a temporary measure,
> consider using the kernel-lt package from the ELRepo Project. [2]
> CONFIG_EEEPC_LAPTOP is configured as a module is both 32- and 64-bit
> flavours.
>
> Alan.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/frontpage.cgi
> [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt
>
Ahhhh - thanks Alan, I wasn't aware of the elrepo kernels. Saves me a
lot of messing around ;)
I'll still BZ it though...
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