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On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:22:25AM +1000, Rudolph Pereira wrote:
> > Ok, can you set hw.acpi.cpu.economy_speed=1, and measure the battery time
> > again?
> I got ~2:20 uptime with this. Slightly better, but it could
> have been because the machine was completely idle.

Ok, I'm out of options at this time. It is clearly a lot less than Linux
and Windows at this time.

I don't have experience in this area of ACPI so won't be able to help you.

Mark

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