Improve the battery life of your Linux Acer Timeline 4810TG

http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8502327&postcount=580

As reported in ubuntuforums:

Activate laptop mode in "/etc/default/acpi-support" and use this /etc/rc.local:

Code:

#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power on
echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs 
hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cdrom

exit 0