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Ubuntu 11.04 battery saving

Recently battery life on my laptop (acer aspire 3820TG) has reduced quite heavily. I could not pin point any specific reason, but I thought that it has decreased significantly after I had brought ubuntu one into use. Without spending too much time on why the battery life reduced, I started googling tips for saving battery life on ubuntu. The following post gave very relevant tips, with very detailed explanation.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1157408

So, I decided to activate the laptop-mode. In fact, doing so has apparently been even more easy than what was described in the above ubuntu forums post. All I had to do was to install laptop-mode-tools.

sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools

In fact, the laptop-mode-tools actually came out of box with quite sensible settings pre-configured, so I didn't have to do any extra work to get the laptop-mode working! The only thing I did was to install powertop and check that powertop had no more suggestions when I was running on battery! (NOTE: powertop did have some suggestions when I was running on AC, but that is because the power saving settings were configured to be activated on battery).

Besides, this, I gathered from other sources another nice little software called jupiter. I installed that using the following commands.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/jupiter
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jupiter

And... yeeee... now the battery is working great!!

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