Quentin Garnier wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:30:58PM +0200, John Heinrigs wrote:
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>>First of all im not sure if i am right here with the little problem i
>>have (though its not a real problem more a optimization thing).
>>
>>My Laptop has the Centrino stuff with a 1.4 Pentium M Processor.
>>Therefore i use the estd for the Enhanced Speedstep. This works pretty
>>fine, though the duration of my Laptop Battery is still more then
>>short with aproximately 2 hours.
>>
>>For advanced Power Management i compiled NetBSD-current with ACPI
>>support enabled and am using the powerd-Deamon. Still i have
>>absolutley no configs for ACPI thus not using it.
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>There is no power management functions in the kernel or in powerd
>(despite its name).  What would probably extend your batterly life is
>support for C-states greater than 1, but it is far from done.
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Well yes sorry. Maybe i didnt express myself all that well.
What i meat were of course things like stand by/hibernate, or just 
turning off Monitor/HD. I think these things should be handled by the 
powerd?!

John