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From: "J. Martin Petersen" <jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk>
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To: Miles Keaton <mileskeaton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with
 cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)
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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