From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 02:55:00 2012 Return-Path: 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 44A48BCC; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:55:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sendtomatt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com (mail-pa0-f54.google.com [209.85.220.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50208FC0A; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id bi1so2586041pad.13 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:54:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vv9/W5x2M1EcS5lHxLpsn5K07IbbYRF76yb9PU9fP88=; b=P49xZWKa7SXIt0t8IVoFcYUbLUmiKeZdAWG8h4xh6dWDBBTEJQaMYNt5rehLcq02hb quQnVDe7elXYY3UT4yvRtUM+nYzm1T4d/9dLNFrW5k9IhYrjzb4fxHwPDEFejigDMKCv OfCZA4EzPRYm/oZVt9Zd44voCfJzcZViQXQJluTJBaQVQftpdHUC9VlstMW0hi0mGFIj idq5q6p4Nd/e2Wmi8Ur27Yr08U7SEAFiYC7Q0Wi4KDviQQFNKKGFJMKSQEFmtnVu/dO/ f3g85Psg23LB42lsiBHTSNSdYpTDnL3XhcvTVvSR/6oihOC2bivAxogC+TcuUcaIO0ed Z/Jw== Received: by 10.68.137.228 with SMTP id ql4mr9474962pbb.125.1350010499641; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flatline.local (70-36-223-239.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net. [70.36.223.239]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id oe5sm3674190pbb.8.2012.10.11.19.54.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50778671.9020703@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:54:41 -0700 From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120912 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erich Dollansky Subject: Re: x220 notes References: <4E836C06.9070405@gmail.com> <4F7A8A99.4040603@gmail.com> <20120403210619.Q2060@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4F7DAAB0.2010206@gmail.com> <4F7E2D5C.3020506@gmail.com> <4F7F9504.1030405@gmail.com> <20120814102409.7dc335b8@X220.ovitrap.com> <20121011094459.12ee1653@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20121011094459.12ee1653@X220.ovitrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?B?0JvRjtCx0L7QvNC40YAg0JPRgNC40LPQvtGA0L7Qsg==?= , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:55:00 -0000 On 10/10/12 19:44, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:26:58 -0700 > Любомир Григоров wrote: > >> Hi, I am now running 10 HEAD with latest committed KMS patch. > I must admit that I did not update this machine since some time. >> I do not use currently suspend and resume on my X220. I use a script >>> for the brightness which makes it easy to handle for me. >>> >> I am still stuck with: >> - add LEN0086 to acpi_ibm >> - recompile >> - kldload acpi_call >> - acpi_call -p '\VBRC' -i n // n is 0-16 >> >> Can you share the script you have made, especially if you were able >> to bind hotkeys to it? >> > The scripts are still available here > > http://www.alogreentechnologies.com/freebsd/XonX220 > http://www.alogreentechnologies.com/freebsd/setbrightness > > I never tried to bind the script to keys. I made some menu items in > blackbox which works for me. >>> There is a fundamental problem with powerd which stops a notebook to >>> get better battery life time. powerd does not include the display >>> brightness and it does not inlcude user activities in its process to >>> regulate the CPU speed. In addition, the algorithm to find the best >>> CPU speed gets easily irritated with short bursts of peak >>> performance requirements. >>> >>> Erich >>> >> I do lose about 1-2 hours of battery time as opposed to Windows(I get >> 7-8 hours there) due to those same bursts of performance, despite >> running the adaptive profiles. My main concern is manual control of >> brightness though. >> > You lose only 1-2h? I lose at least 2h. > > I have had several tries to make it better but got always held up by > other things. > > My last attempts have still been with the Crusoe CPU. They gave the > machine near XP battery times but needed manual interaction. So, I > never published them. > > Erich > You've swapped the X220 cpu for something? Or a different machine? I find X does horrible things to battery usage on my X220. Getting into the lowest C state, and disabling ALL of the USB devices helps somewhat, as does setting a lower backlight level at boot (you can make an rc script, or catch the backlight buttons while the bios is still loading). Matt