Battery Powered Linux Mini-HOWTO

Hanno Mueller, hanno@lava.de http://www.lava.de/~hanno/

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Before you ask
• 1.2 What this document is about
• 1.3 Roadmap
• 1.4 Feedback
• 1.5 Disclaimer
• 1.6 Copyright

2. General information

• 2.1 Be kind to your battery
• 2.2 Power saving - The obvious stuff

3. Advanced Power Management

• 3.1 What APM can do for you
• 3.2 How to activate APM support in Linux
• 3.3 APM support and the PCMCIA drivers
• 3.4 The apmd package
• 3.5 And if my laptop does not support APM?

4. Changing some general system settings

• 4.1 The crond daemon and atrun
• 4.2 The update / bdflush daemon
• 4.3 The syslogd daemon
• 4.4 The init command
• 4.5 The swap partition
• 4.6 The apache httpd webserver daemon
• 4.7 The XFree86 package
• 4.8 The emacs editor
• 4.9 How to find more ways to optimize

5. Appendix

• 5.1 A message to Linux distributors
• 5.2 Credits
• 5.3 About this document