Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 22:47 +0200, Sheer El-Showk wrote: > >> On 4/25/07, Till Straumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> /I can confirm your report (mbp, c1d here) - I also >>> found similar results (~17-18W) under osx. On linux >>> I get down to 20-21W (low brighness, disk at rest, CPU freq >>> at 1GHz, ati powerstate=1) but I found that unloading >>> the 'uvcvideo' driver (isight) seems to save almost >>> another ~1W or so - I'm at 19-20W right now. >>> >> This is considerably better than an mbp c2d. If you don't set >> powerstate to the lowest state what do you get? >> > > around 30W > > I can't confirm that the ATI powerstate makes 10W of a difference. In my case savings are only somewhere between 0-2W (mbp c1d).
I don't do anything to the fans and unless the CPU gets busy (ondemand governor) the temperature doesn't seem to be excessive. T. >> Do your fans run at a >> higher speed than in OS X? >> > > no. except I force them to (which I do (~2500RPM) as this mbp gets too > hot and this is independent of the OS you use) > > Soeren > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-devel mailing list > Mactel-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-devel mailing list Mactel-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-devel
