From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Sep 14 16:40:19 2002 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 4B1CA37B400 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 16:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E68843E6A for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 16:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8ENeB9R044428; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:40:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:40:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020914.174004.124085701.imp@bsdimp.com> To: marcus@marcuscom.com Cc: kluckie@ihug.co.nz, imp@village.org, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inspiron 8000 & Maestro 3 From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <1031930827.657.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <20020315.211417.16265646.imp@village.org> <3D81A0F3.6090203@ihug.co.nz> <1031930827.657.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <1031930827.657.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Joe Marcus Clarke writes: : You're right. I'f I kick off xmms, then run apm a few times, the sounds : slows down and distorts. It actually adds a nice effect when listening : to Disturbed ;-). I usually never run battstat programs since this : laptop is almost always plugged in. Even rtprio doesn't help anything. The linux folks complain that the acpica software takes forever to get the status of the battery. I wouldn't be surprised if all of that chatting is done such that other users of the system suffer. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message