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Date:      Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:06:24 -0800
From:      Miles Keaton <mileskeaton@gmail.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)
Message-ID:  <59b2d39b0511111806l63c83504xc9858b31faab3d1d@mail.gmail.com>

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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 was using est+estctrl in FreeBSD 5 wonderfully, but now they're
disabled, telling me to use cpufreq instead - though I can't tell how,
and didn't understand the man page.)

Thanks!



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