From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRYfx-0001Oe-Mq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:02:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA4BFE09F4; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa011msr.fastwebnet.it (aa011msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.71]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B23FE09F4 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [37.1.3.91] (37.1.3.91) by aa011msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.5) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 47AAEA7F01EE7ACF for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:00:43 +0100 Message-ID: <47BB3B85.7080108@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:26:45 +0100 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071119) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo? References: <47B54BE3.4000405@gmail.com> <47BAAF38.5010906@gmail.com> <1203440975.10427.1.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> <47BB28FF.8050101@gmail.com> <1203449224.10427.12.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> In-Reply-To: <1203449224.10427.12.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 23f19623-d062-4da5-8ffa-bc4f59f96b66 X-Archives-Hash: 5023cae15bd4e83938174ea6c01588e5 Florian Philipp ha scritto: > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: > 1. Use laptop-mode if you don't do it by now. Really nice even without > its delayed disk write feature. Er, I already use it. I wrote it, in fact. :) > 2. Displays are by far the biggest energy consumers. Lower its > brightness as far as possible. Some laptops even allow you to switch its > backlight off - very nice if you are outdoor. That's what I do (Never tried outdoor however). Somehow the pommed daemon seems less granular in managing the screen than OS X, however. > 3. Use the powersave-governor. If you really need the additional power > ondemand offers, try the conservative-governor. It increases the clock > rate slower than ondemand and might stop it from jumping too fast too > high. Thanks for the tip! > 4. Try sys-power/powertop. It shows you processes creating a lot up > wakeups for the CPU. It also gives you tips on your kernel config. Thanks too. I know about powertop but it complains about something not correctly set up in my kernel. I have to do this janitorial work. > 5. Sometimes a BIOS update helps... Well, if it's a BIOS issue, OS X works around it? I think it's just my system suffering some unavoidable limits with new machines, while Apple of course designed OS X around its own machines. > Hope this helps. Thanks a lot! m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list