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Date:      Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:00:15 -0800
From:      Miles Keaton <mileskeaton@gmail.com>
To:        "J. Martin Petersen" <jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk>,  FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)
Message-ID:  <59b2d39b0511120800k781ac88bj5f79a75dd78f790b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4375D02C.3080401@alvorlig.dk>
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> Miles Keaton wrote:
> > I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if
> > anyone can explain ("for dummies") how to use the new cpufreq +
> > SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the
> > way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5?
On 11/12/05, J. Martin Petersen <jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk> wrote:
> I'm using powerd, it's working great.


Any advice on usage?  I tried it and got this error:

# powerd -a minimum
powerd: lookup freq: No such file or directory



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