2.5 hours today off-grid

[DamonHD]

I got about two-and-a-half hours off-grid today.  I think I can increase that by about another 15 minutes tomorrow assuming similar sunshine, by turning off a power-hungry process.

Rgds

Damon

[Bruce S]

Damon;

Sounds like you're on your way!!

What tpye of system do you have? I think in you're previous post it was a laptop.

Is it possible to use the energy star setting to go low power? spin down the HD, blank out the screen OR have you already done that and I missed it on the other posts?

Keep up the posts!!

Bruce S

[DamonHD]

Hi,

It's a laptop.  Already applied all the power-saving tech currently available and the lid is down to eliminate backlight power draw.

(For the technically minded it's a HASEE Intel Core Duo 1.73GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB disc, 4GB SD memory card being used as the boot disc, running Ubuntu (Linux) "Feisty Fawn" with a "Gutsy" NO_HZ tickless kernel, laptop mode to spin down the disc, and cpufreqd to manage CPU clock speed.)

More here: http://www.earth.org.uk/low-power-laptop.html

Rgds

Damon

[vawtman]

Damon

 From the untechy i may need some of them parts for my vawt.Maybe the gutsy tickless feisty fawn hassie from Ubunto to spin it.

 Have fun and nice work.

[DamonHD]

No, no, a spinning feisty fawn may get very sick!  B^>

[ZooT]

So did you do the kernel build yourself, or use an "off the shelf" kernel?

[DamonHD]

I have built a kernel myself but in the end I got the prebuilt Gutsy kernel.

When I have a little more time, and 2.6.23 is a little more advanced and/or gets the full set of 'force-HPET' and cpuidle patches in, I may build a new kernel with those.  Not quite sure what kernels I can mix with which 'userland'.  I've been more a Solaris person in the past!

Rgds

Damon