From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 11:09:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBB316A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:09:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank.altpeter@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CA743D4C for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:09:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank.altpeter@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a4so167337nfc for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:09:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mPPa33SqneOIz6z/zZD6Y1w00VlXsH9jg7WOtrUCXstp1oFrQckUYkgy10+4Je44UZ2+jDJj8swb6pwuUgMCoQuuWfEtqBiAvJbBR2DyaWTaQVL0VvirNba707Xssr3O0W3fv8GstJ4aFgM3oDpQkpnU8D5Yckic3CJAsWVUaiI= Received: by 10.48.157.15 with SMTP id f15mr154764nfe; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.3.6 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:09:25 +0200 From: Frank Altpeter To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <430E4967.20355.1BF72257@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <430E4967.20355.1BF72257@localhost> Subject: Re: long flight; need battery power! X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:09:27 -0000 2005/8/26, Dan Langille : > In September, I'll have a couple of long flights. I'll be using my > IBM ThinkPad T41 to catch up on some long delayed FreshPorts > enhancements. Apart from charging whenever I can, I'm afraid I'll > get only about 140-150 minutes from my battery. >=20 > Apart from buying a second battery, any ideas? I recently installed sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl (Enhanced Speedstep Technology, kernel module and daemon) and it brought me about 45 minutes more battery power. Perhaps it's worth a try, if you don't already use it. --=20 Le deagh dh=F9raghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous