In message <1659678956@web.de>, "John Heinrigs" writes:
>Hi port-i386,
>
>First of all im not sure if i am right here with the little problem i have (th
>ough its not a real problem more a optimization thing).
>
>My Laptop has the Centrino stuff with a 1.4 Pentium M Processor. Therefore i u
>se the estd for the Enhanced Speedstep. This works pretty fine, though the dur
>ation of my Laptop Battery is still more then short with aproximately 2 hours.
>
>For advanced Power Management i compiled NetBSD-current with ACPI support enab
>led and am using the powerd-Deamon. Still i have absolutley no configs for ACP
>I thus not using it.
>
>Now i wanted to ask what further steps to make to enhance Battery Durability, 
>and if someone has some proper configs for the ACPI stuff.


You might want to keep a careful eye on estd -- in my tests, it didn't 
seem to slow the CPU down enough.  Have you seen
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/power-mgmt ?


		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb