On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:12:12 -0400 Eric Pineault <Pineault.eric@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hello, I have debian sid with 2.6.4 kernel on a compaq evo n610c. ACPI > seems OK but power usage when on battery is very high, usefull battery > time is at the most one hour after, while with windows XP I have up to 3 > hours. Is there any way I can manage the power usage and improve power > management with acpi on this machine. > Hello, apt-get install powernowd and use a kernel with these options: # # CPUFreq processor drivers # CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y # CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ_PROC_INTF is not set # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6 is not set # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K7 is not set # CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8 is not set # CONFIG_X86_GX_SUSPMOD is not set CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO=y CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_ICH=y # CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_SMI is not set # CONFIG_X86_P4_CLOCKMOD is not set CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_LIB=y -- Vincent Lenouvel - <vincent@info.unicaen.fr> Université de Caen, Campus II, Bd Maréchal Juin, BP 5186, 14032 Caen Empreinte de la clé = D14D EFE9 4F55 AF89 98B0 666B 17E5 C840 4B0D 80E4 wget -O - http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~vincent/signature.asc | gpg --import
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