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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. | ||
== 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 | |||
<pre> | |||
upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 | |||
</pre> | |||
reveals, that the battery is OK as advertised. | |||
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: | |||
tl;dr: | |||
<pre> | |||
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp | |||
sudo apt-get update | |||
sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms | |||
service tlp start | |||
</pre> | |||
See how this improves runtime. | |||
More to come. | More to come. | ||
Revision as of 17:29, 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.
