I don't care much about power (I'm running a desktop) but I can tell you that I don't use the ATI proprietary drivers. They are way worse than their equivalent xp ones both in features and performance. Having said that, here you can find some suggestions on how to improve the power performance of your video card:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_Graphics_Chips_Power_Management_features Another thing you can try is to reduce backlight. If you have a Toshiba or IBM have a look at acpitool. I doubt that anything else would justify an 100% increase in power consumption. -- [Dapper, Edgy, Feisty] Battery Life Low (half of XP) on Inspiron 9300 https://launchpad.net/bugs/97627 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
