Sunday, June 12, 2016

How to enable performance fan mode on Lenovo Z580

If you have Lenovo Z580 as me, you can see that you can set only silent, normal and dust cleaning mode for your fan. It's because of incompatibility of current ideapad-laptop module. Enabling performance mode is very easy.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

How to get a longer battery life on linux

Main problem of laptops is battery life on Linux. It’s mainly becouse laptop manufacturers didn’t provide linux drivers a power save features. You can almost always experience that Windows operating system will last longer on battery. Sometimes it’s a few minutes, but sometimes it’s few hours. If you are not satisfied with your battery endurance, feel free to take some ideas from this article. It’s written mainly for Arch Linux, but with small changes it can be applied on all modern linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc.