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Downright boring. Installation of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop 64 bit from an USB-stick. Everything obvious (graphics, touchpad, display, WiFi) works right out of the box.
 
Downright boring. Installation of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop 64 bit from an USB-stick. Everything obvious (graphics, touchpad, display, WiFi) works right out of the box.
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== Optimizing Power Save ==
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Despite ordering a new 48 Wh replacement battery from Sanyo, the laptop drains a full battery quite fast if running Ubuntu 16.04 (as most Linux distros do without power optimization).
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Checking the battery  with
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<pre>
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upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
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</pre>
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reveals, that the battery is OK as advertised.
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See http://thinkwiki.de/TLP_-_Linux_Stromsparen (in german, but it is only about [http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/ TLP]) for some hints specifically geared towards Thinkpads:
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tl;dr:
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<pre>
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms
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service tlp start
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</pre>
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See how this improves runtime.
  
 
More to come.
 
More to come.

Revision as of 16:29, 14 May 2017

I recently bought a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad x230, which came with Windows 10.

Of course I had to install Linux.

Installation

Downright boring. Installation of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop 64 bit from an USB-stick. Everything obvious (graphics, touchpad, display, WiFi) works right out of the box.

Optimizing Power Save

Despite ordering a new 48 Wh replacement battery from Sanyo, the laptop drains a full battery quite fast if running Ubuntu 16.04 (as most Linux distros do without power optimization).

Checking the battery with

upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0

reveals, that the battery is OK as advertised.

See http://thinkwiki.de/TLP_-_Linux_Stromsparen (in german, but it is only about TLP) for some hints specifically geared towards Thinkpads:

tl;dr:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms
service tlp start

See how this improves runtime.

More to come.