Some hints on how to save some power on linux, in my case arch on a samsung series 7 ultra

poweronlinux.md

Tools

useful tools for tracking the power consumption

powertop

• Homepage: https://01.org/powertop/
• On arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Powertop

TLP

Advanced power management tool for Linux.

• Homepage: http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html
• Sources, mostly in perl: https://github.com/linrunner/TLP
• On Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TLP

The default configuration coming with the installation is absolutely fine.

Article and Blog-posts

Samsung series 9 and opensuse

Nice blogpost with a lot of hints that were helpful when getting arch running on my series 7 ultra. http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2012/09/linux-and-samsung-series-9-np900x3c.html

battery life of intel linux notebooks

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_i915_power&num=1

power saving on Arch

That was also quite helpful for general understanding: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_saving

key mappings

• General introduction on arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_Keyboard_Keys
• Samsung Fn hotkeys with Arch: http://skilldrick.co.uk/2010/07/samsung-fn-hotkeys-and-arch-linux/
• map scancodes to keycodes: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Map_scancodes_to_keycodes