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 1JRuFi-0002eQ-G6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:05:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6FB2E03D9; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (aa012msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6560DE03D9 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [37.1.3.91] (37.1.3.91) by aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.5) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 47AAE88C0221CE20 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:04:47 +0100 Message-ID: <47BC7FE5.9000601@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:30:45 +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> <1203449224.10427.12.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> <47BB3B85.7080108@gmail.com> <200802201121.07345.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: <200802201121.07345.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5a855841-a1be-4271-9505-2ccb1890d9fa X-Archives-Hash: b266ecbc3022c3aef76bc6998fb82142 Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: > >>> 5. Sometimes a BIOS update helps... >> Well, if it's a BIOS issue, OS X works around it? > > I'd not be surprised if it did. Windows drivers work around buggy BIOSes > all the time. Right. So, how can I know it? When I googled to maximize my MBP battery performance, I found nothing about BIOS/EFI (More precisely, the MBP has not a BIOS, but an EFI, whatever the difference is). Is there some kind of diagnostic for this kind of things? m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list