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Date:      Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:21:16 +0100
From:      "J. Martin Petersen" <jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk>
To:        Miles Keaton <mileskeaton@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)
Message-ID:  <4375D02C.3080401@alvorlig.dk>
In-Reply-To: <59b2d39b0511111806l63c83504xc9858b31faab3d1d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <59b2d39b0511111806l63c83504xc9858b31faab3d1d@mail.gmail.com>

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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?

I'm using powerd, it's working great.

Cheers, Martin



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