From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 19 10:36:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 C6C0916A416 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:36:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard@unixguru.nl) Received: from mx1.unixguru.nl (mx1.unixguru.nl [84.16.238.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079B643D55 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:36:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard@unixguru.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.unixguru.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A0B400D; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:36:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx1.unixguru.nl ([84.16.238.226]) by localhost (vs8616 [84.16.238.226]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25678-09; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:36:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.unixguru.nl (mail.unixguru.nl [212.120.110.227]) by mx1.unixguru.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A16400C; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:36:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (sun.unixguru.nl [192.168.10.7]) by mail.unixguru.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A3C56470; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:35:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:36:44 +0100 From: Richard Arends To: Kevin Oberman Message-ID: <20061119103643.GN12210@sun.unixguru.nl> References: <20061118183322.GM12210@sun.unixguru.nl> <20061118223051.A1E2045051@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061118223051.A1E2045051@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixguru.nl Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lenovo IBM Thinkpad T60 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: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:36:50 -0000 On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:30:51PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: Kevin, > First, snd_hda had never been in STABLE. Okay, i thought i did see some notes about snd_hda and STABLE on 'google'. > It is quite new and was added > to CURRENT too late to be adequately tested before the freeze to prepare > for 6.2-Release. I suspect it will be MFCed fairly soon as the the > freeze on STABLE should be thawing (or might already be doing so). That will be great. > I believe that acpi_ibm should provide some fan control, but the fan is > really not much of a power sink. I found some fan control scripts for Linux which can fairly easy adapted to FreeBSD. I will look in to that real soon, or has somebody else written already a script, or is looking into it? > Make sure that you install radeontool > from ports. It will let you turn off the display (not just the > back-light) and the DAC for the video out. # radeontool light The radeon backlight looks off # radeontool light on # radeontool light The radeon backlight looks off # radeontool dac The radeon external DAC looks on # radeontool dac off # radeontool dac The radeon external DAC looks on Unfortunate it does not look to work for the T60. > Try setting hw.pci.do_power_nodriver="1" in /boot/loader.conf. That will > help (or crash the system). It works on my T43. You can then up the > value to "2" or "3". I have yet to try "2", but "3" prevents by T43 from > booting. Maybe the T60 will do better. Larger values result in more > aggressive PCI power control. Okay, i putted it on 3 and FreeBSD did not boot anymore. Value 2 works! > Finally, limiting the CPU speed while on battery is a winner. If you > use Gnome, use the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor and kill powerd. You > can then manually set the speed. Try to enable EST. Add > hint.est.0.disabled="1" to /boot/loader. It is not a win for my system, > but it should be. That will enable it, or disable it?? hint.est.0.disabled="1" seems to me that it will disable est. I did set it anyway :) > Even though I have these on my T43, Windoows still stretches battery > quite a bit. I get about 3.5 hours on FreeBSD and about 5 on Windows. :( Thanks for your answers! -- Regards, Richard.