I've always used slackware on my desktop now I want to move it to my
laptop. I've installed suse on my laptop the problem is its a
battery hog. my laptop might get 1 and half hours of run time off of
the battery. I get about 3 and a half with windows. So does linux
have modules to help with batery life and the sort. Also I couldn't
ge tthe wireless lan drivers to work with suse. Also I noticed that
suse had a battery meater in kde will slackware have a battery meater
also or will I have to configure somthing for that. Any help would
be appreciated.

Thanx for reading

Bignester
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beej

I put slack on a POS Dell 5100 and everything works except the modem
(which probably works, but I haven't tried it.)

The wireless minipci card they wanted to bundle with it wasn't directly
supported--have to buy some driver stuffs for it, or else buy a 3rd
party minipci wlan card.

Battery lasts over 4 hours at a reasonable screen brightness, just as
advertised.

So it's possible. Check this out:

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/

and look up your laptop make and model and see what other peoples'
experiences have been.

-Beej

alan hicks

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ACPI.

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eef hartman

In essence this is the kernel's task, so will not be different between
Slackware and SuSE.
Application programs and tools may differ, though. I'm not a SuSE
expert (never even seen it, actually).
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weevil

and we all know how much fun that can be!

bartosz oudekerk

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Someone else already mentioned ACPI, but you should also look at
CPUfreq.

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