On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Alan Coopersmith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aubrey Li wrote: > > > > > Yeah, power saving will be a long way of opensolaris, not specific on > > > indiana only. > > > Currently, cpu power mangement option is not enabled by default. > > > If you are aware speedstep is supported on your laptop, you could > > > enable it(dtpower(1M)). > > > > > > > dtpower, being part of CDE, is not included in OpenSolaris/Indiana. > > > okay, I checked just now, not there really. > So we have to edit power.conf(4) manually. > Add the following entry to /etc/power.conf > ============== > cpupm enable > cpu-threshold 15s > ============= > > Then run pmconfig. > > Speedstep should be enabled if it's supported. > > We also have powertop, if it's running under root, > it will tell you how to enable cpupm. > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/tesla/Work/Powertop/ >
I put an i386 PowerTOP link here to download: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/tesla/Work/Powertop/SUNWpowertop-1.0_REV_2008.04.24-SUNOS5.11-i386.pkg.gz Any suggestions and comments are really appreciated! Thanks, -Aubrey _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
