I put Haiku-OS on my Dell G7 laptop. It is about 3 years old or so, but still considered fairly modern (10th Gen Core i7, 12 cores, GeForce RTX, blah, blah, blah). I can report that Haiku runs GREAT on it, with just one tiny exception: it doesn’t know that it’s a laptop.
Since it doesn’t know it’s a laptop, I don’t get any battery management and certainly am not seeing any energy saving going on - it seems to just crank at full tilt from boot to shutdown. So, on battery, it doesn’t last long at all.
Is there something I missed during install? Can I, should I, fix this?
Thank you and great work to all those who work on this OS!
If you can’t resolve this in the OS, you may be able to manually set power saving options in the BIOS, if you only/mainly use it for Haiku. I actually did the same for BeOS and Haiku on my laptop, so it would run at 2ghz instead of 600mhz when on battery.
Just open the power status replicant. If a battery is detected you can install it in deskbar.
Other than that there isn’t much haiku can do for power saving currently, apart from the low power/ low latency witch is already available in processcontroller in the deskbar