Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 06:52:56 +1000 From: Rudolph Pereira <memetical@yahoo.com.au> To: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: battery life on presario 720 Message-ID: <20030808205256.GC610@starfleet.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20030807205608.GA687@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20030712014031.GA48560@starfleet.org.au> <20030805065245.GB655@laptop.6bone.nl> <20030805183737.GC47022@starfleet.org.au> <20030805205852.GB675@laptop.6bone.nl> <20030807192225.GA3767@starfleet.org.au> <20030807205608.GA687@laptop.6bone.nl>
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:56:08PM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:22:25AM +1000, Rudolph Pereira wrote: > > > Ok, can you set hw.acpi.cpu.economy_speed=1, and measure the battery time > > > again? > > I got ~2:20 uptime with this. Slightly better, but it could > > have been because the machine was completely idle. > > Ok, I'm out of options at this time. It is clearly a lot less than Linux > and Windows at this time. > > I don't have experience in this area of ACPI so won't be able to help you. Thanks for following this up. Nate Lawson said on acpi-jp that freebsd doesn't yet implement low-power hardware idle states, hence the low battery life. Sorry if I wasted your time.
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