From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 20 01:08:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 361CD16A419 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:08:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex.kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A5313C469 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:08:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex.kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from [10.0.3.231] ([70.21.131.146]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JLG004EFDTF12W6@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for acpi@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:08:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:07:51 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" In-reply-to: <20070717162700.A778045045@ptavv.es.net> To: Kevin Oberman Message-id: <1184893671.23017.6.camel@RabbitsDen> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20070717162700.A778045045@ptavv.es.net> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Interesting" behavior of ACPI power management on T43 with CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:08:07 -0000 On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:27 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > My system seems to have grown added power management capabilities > without cpufreq and maybe powerd. The behavior of my laptop (Lenovo/IBM > T43) as regards power management with CURRENT is suddenly very > different. I am pretty sure that this behavior first appeared in the > past few months, so come change in FreeBSD (probably in ACPI code) > triggered the change. > This changes has really improved the battery life of my system and I > like it, I am simply baffled as to why it is doing it and if it is > ThinkPad specific or if others are seeing this. Is it possible that you have done BIOS update between then and now? Another alternative could be that ACPI code started calling some ASL it did not call before -- at some point I used to own laptop where fan control was neatly tucked in the _TMP method, so every time system will ask BIOS for the temperature sensor readout, fan speed will get adjusted. Just some thoughts. -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko