Re: [Cooker] 2008.1 extremely power hungry?

Steve Morris <samorris@...> writes:

> Ever since I have installed 2008.1 from scratch, after wiping 2008.0,
> and running kpowersave with the powersave theme is extremely power
> hungry. Under 2008.0 my battery lasted about 1 hour 15 minutes, under
> 2008.1 I am lucky if it lasts 1/2 an hour. How do I increase the time
> the battery lasts, or work out what is causing the power drain?

check with powertop