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		<title>EeePC CPU throttling - ubuntueee</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[it seems that the stock battery of the EeePC 1000h does not last that long under ubuntueee as with the default XandrOS&#8230; around 4 hrs vs. 5 hrs.
since nothing is different from hardware point of view, it must be some powersaving options with ubuntueee, which prevents saving battery life.
after some googleing I found an old [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it seems that the stock battery of the EeePC 1000h does not last that long under ubuntueee as with the default XandrOS&#8230; around 4 hrs vs. 5 hrs.</p>
<p>since nothing is different from hardware point of view, it must be some powersaving options with ubuntueee, which prevents saving battery life.</p>
<p>after some googleing I <a href="http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/11/04/enabling-cpu-frequency-scaling/" target="_blank">found an old (2005) post</a>, which helped anyway.</p>
<p><em>sudo apt-get install cpufrequtils</em></p>
<p><em>cpufreq-info</em></p>
<p><em></em>I could see that now cpu is working at 800MHz (which is good, since the max is 1.6 GHz)</p>
<p>after enabling cpu throttling, the next task was to get the applet in the ubuntueee, gnome taskbar.</p>
<p>unfortunately by default, the ubuntuee taskbar is locked for adding new applets (simply there is no empty area where one can right click and select &#8220;add panel&#8221;).</p>
<p>the solution is to &#8220;move&#8221; on of the applets a bit to create some empty space, hence right click and adding a new applet is possible.</p>
<p>so, the new panel looks like this:</p>
<p><img style="max-width: 800px;" src="http://kepfeltoltes.hu/080929/ubuntueee_applet0_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>not only the cpus (one cpu, but due to hyperthreating it seems like two), but I also added the temperature applet to monitor the temp of the processor.</p>
<p>looks much better and now it is estimated to reach around 5 hrs&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://kepfeltoltes.hu/080929/Screenshot-2_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.png" target="_blank"><img style="max-width: 800px;" src="http://kepfeltoltes.hu/080929/Screenshot-2_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.png" alt="" width="520" height="304" /></a></p>
<p>the only question remains, why it does not come as default on the ubuntueee distro?</p>
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