Comment 57 for bug 760131

I saw a post on the phoronix forums and decided to install the 2.6.39.1 kernel. It has solved my power issues greatly. I have been running it all afternoon and my temps have remained low and my battery life is back up to normal. Here is the post:

"I just stumbled across a patch for (soon to arrive) version 2.6.39.1:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux....02/focus=12505

Maybe this small patch solves the power regression."