Re: PowerBook 12'' & some troubles

[Davide Bertola <dade@dadeb.it>]

I use cpu scaling and powersave governor trought cpufreqd configured 
manually to save the maximum power i can. My battery keeps on for about 
3 hours.. (osx does nearly 5 hours)

cat /proc/pmu/bat* <- something like that (i'm using osx i dont 
remember)
here you see the istant discharge rate and the maximum capacity.
my maximum capacity is 3756 mA, and my istant discharge rate is about 
1000 mAh. with a wireless plugged in and using the powerbook normally 
it is about 1300 mAh.. so it's about three hours.. can you tell me your 
istant discharge rate ?

Il giorno 07/nov/04, alle 00:55, Andrea Giusto ha scritto:

> > i use this to change my backlight
> > you can compile it using gcc and use it typing something like :
> > A./filename [n]
> > where n is the light value.
>
> > i'm italian too, you can find me on #nectarine (irc.nectarine.info) if
> > you want
>
> Thanks for the backlight I will try it soon!
> > I have problems with power consumpion, my linux consumes more than 
> > osx,
> > do you have any tip for me ?
> Do you use frequency scaling? Pmud? I dunno if Cpudyn works on 
> powerbook but
> on my old laptop it did a great work at dynamically scaling cpufreq so 
> that
> maximum speed was used only if needed. Give it a try.
>
>
>
>
> Alle Friday 05 November 2004 2:41 pm, Andrea Giusto ha scritto:
> > Thank you very much I will give a look to that thread
> >
> > ps. 	questo è per il feedback del forum :) mail private già spedita 
> > ...
> >
> > Alle Friday 05 November 2004 2:33 pm, lunaticmarkino ha scritto:
> > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:49:36 -0800, Andrea Giusto wrote:
> > > > Hello everybody, I am new to debian but I have been using 
> > > > exclusively
> > > > linux on an Intel for one year (of which I am kinda proud :) )!Now I
> > > > bought a PowerBook 12'' and Debian works great on that but I have 
> > > > three
> > > > problems up to now that I cannot solve:
> > > > 1) I cannot control LCD brightness (I installed pbbuttons with the 
> > > > gtk
> > > > plugin, It works, but the brightness is unchanged). When I modprobe
> > > > ans_lcd it complains that there are wrong symbols (?)
> > >
> > > ssearch in the archives. there is a thread called "Brightness control
> > > on PowerBook G4...". i haven't read yet, maybe is what you looking
> > > for.
> > >
> > > ps. sei di bologna? email strana la tua, @economia.unibo.it, devi
> > > essere uno "grosso" di economia, visto che a me hanno dato solo
> > > @studio.unibo.it ;)
> > >
> > > ciao

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