From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 23:27:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB49B5B; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:27:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nm.knife@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com (mail-wi0-f178.google.com [209.85.212.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9728FC0A; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f178.google.com with SMTP id hr7so1186267wib.13 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:26:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=85/NpFbyUs+rKj3FYdm8sKievcWhVkaJVEv7wsA5uuM=; b=LgT3T3B5JpDxTC5xnuaO/1f2VA+awYZ5l4vRsl61beCmMzeGm4c1W05oVljHL4V0Wh UAP1rvAz5Qy32lx6cpdAuTzNRItoHzI5hdwWE6aQz7bOV6szY1TuSpASOnPOj+Vo2Xe2 peY6VtED3RgOQwRQqAKDPyuQMu1FQYzFkkdRCBI7WAVCixLAyrfGK6z7ZITWWnMtl5Jh O3whkHKRQ/ePcGX6G7EW+W2d7JZScPpn0Up+wju0gJyKg6AgR3LArkim3N8YPLrs40nb 52sSeEUHGraBX3/a8Cgs7Pw8qIgKeTVtyhnszJpaD8ieSHaEBJK8SVxXou9giAEhbCzv TnZA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.195.133 with SMTP id p5mr15778222wen.1.1349911618291; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.38.145 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:26:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120814102409.7dc335b8@X220.ovitrap.com> References: <4E836C06.9070405@gmail.com> <4F7A46DB.4050701@gmail.com> <4F7A8A99.4040603@gmail.com> <20120403210619.Q2060@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4F7DAAB0.2010206@gmail.com> <4F7E2D5C.3020506@gmail.com> <4F7F9504.1030405@gmail.com> <20120814102409.7dc335b8@X220.ovitrap.com> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:26:58 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: x220 notes From: =?windows-1251?B?y/7h7uzo8CDD8Ojj7vDu4g==?= To: Erich Dollansky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: sendtomatt@gmail.com, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:27:00 -0000 Hi, I am now running 10 HEAD with latest committed KMS patch. I do not use currently suspend and resume on my X220. I use a script > for the brightness which makes it easy to handle for me. > I am still stuck with: - add LEN0086 to acpi_ibm - recompile - kldload acpi_call - acpi_call -p '\VBRC' -i n // n is 0-16 Can you share the script you have made, especially if you were able to bind hotkeys to it? > There is a fundamental problem with powerd which stops a notebook to > get better battery life time. powerd does not include the display > brightness and it does not inlcude user activities in its process to > regulate the CPU speed. In addition, the algorithm to find the best CPU > speed gets easily irritated with short bursts of peak performance > requirements. > > Erich > I do lose about 1-2 hours of battery time as opposed to Windows(I get 7-8 hours there) due to those same bursts of performance, despite running the adaptive profiles. My main concern is manual control of brightness though. -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam)