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Date:      Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:51:50 +0200
From:      Ulrich Spoerlein <q@galgenberg.net>
To:        "Philip S. Schulz" <ph.schulz@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: long flight; need battery power!
Message-ID:  <20050831145150.GA1050@galgenberg.net>
In-Reply-To: <430F536A.5060008@gmx.de>
References:  <430E4967.20355.1BF72257@localhost> <e367ea1005082604092c3fe807@mail.gmail.com> <20050826162107.GB659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <430F536A.5060008@gmx.de>

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On Fri, 26.08.2005 at 19:37:46 +0200, Philip S. Schulz wrote:
> [relative cpufreq drivers suck]
> 
>   Personally, I find this very annoying b/c 750 MHz makes the fan spin up more often than 
> 800 MHz where I don't feel any difference in performance.
> 
>   In order to work only with absulute drivers, i.e. emulate the est(4) behaviour, use 
> /boot/device.hints to disable all relative drivers your system detects.

I have the same problem and am still running est/estctrl on my 6.0
Banias-Laptop. I read cpufreq(4) and didn't find any documented loader
tunables.  Would you care to share the magic incantation, that disables
relative drivers?

Ulrich Spoerlein
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Ok, which part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
didn't you understand?

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