Re: Centrino question

Bruno Ducrot
2004-05-21T18:31:13Z

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?

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