Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 21:22:49 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIEtva2Vtw7xsbGVy?= <jan.kokemueller@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Battery life with the latest drm Message-ID: <54D3D119.7030807@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150204202733.GN41565@e-new.0x20.net> References: <20150204202733.GN41565@e-new.0x20.net>
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On 04.02.2015 21:27, Lars Engels wrote: > By the way on the X230 (IvyBridge i7) the loader.conf setting > "drm.i915.enable_rc6=7" makes a huge difference. > For some other reason I removed it from loader.conf and > hw.acpi.battery.time showed 160 minutes. After re-adding it battery time > went up to 230 minutes. I've been using the same setting for a while now and can confirm the increase of battery life. It also makes a huge difference in fan noise on my T420. Can you suspend/resume with rc6 on? I had to patch around a deadlock in i915_irq.c: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183859 I haven't checked yet if this still occurs after the recent drm import.
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