From: Bruno D. <du...@po...> - 2004-05-21 18:32:22
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On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:17:54AM -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:08, Nakajima, Jun wrote: > > To get longer battery life, you need to use P-state transitions via > > Enhanced SpeedStep as well. > > Which means we have to use the drivers provided by Intel?? Those are deprecated. > Or do you just mean the speedstep functions? I guess Jun means the cpufreq centrino speedstep driver. > I have cpuspeedfreq installed and when I'm quoting the number > of hours, I actually am quoting it with cpufreq turned on and running > at 600Mhz only with nothing plugged into the USB, backlight at it's dimmest > and all that. (Even the fan is turned off!) > > No JOY! > > So.. Centrino gives a better/longer Batt life?? MY foot! It actually depends > on the batt capacity the OEM gives you! The extra 1MB cache in Pentium-M > is nice though. :) That's strange. Are you sure you are not running a kind of throttling control stuff instead? -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care. |