On Friday 23 March 2007, Sheer El-Showk wrote:
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>
> My first guess would have been that powering down the GPU would have
> significantly improved the battery life but Core Duo owners (I have a
> C2D) claim this is not so. Is the problem more crappy ATI drivers?
> In OS X I've noticed that if
Has anyone ever tried to get the SMC specs from Apple? Is there even
a general consensus on what it is that's eating up so much more power
in Linux than on OS X?
Kai, why do you say the CPU is at 1000 MHz more often in OS X (how can
did you see this)? When I'm in Linux using Beryl I noticed the
* Nicolas Boichat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Forget about them developing a driver, I think it's asking WAY to much
> (and actually the applesmc driver we have has more features exposed to
> the user than the one in OS X (you need third party apps to get fan
> control for example))... The specs would
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:52:58 +0100, Sheer El-Showk wrote:
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> In my note to apple (which I'm still deciding whether to snail mail or
> post) I don't explicitly ask them to develop SMC drivers but I do ask
> them for the specs and I point out that they support windows (to some
I think it
Hi guys,
Thanks for your responses.
Nicolas thanks for sharing your experiences with this. I actually do
find it encouraging that you got the responses you did from
NEC/Mitubishi and Fujitsu/Siemens. I'm not too surprised that a
hardware manufacturer that isn't predominantly computer oriented l
>> Also, another large issue with the MB and MBP is SMC support in linux.
>> I'm not sure if this is for want of specifications or for want of
>> someone to just implement a good driver. If its the former then we
>> should also ask apple to release these or perhaps even help develop a
>> driver.
Hi,
Sheer El-Showk wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A recent post on Michael Larabel's blog suggests that linux users are
> taking an incorrect approach by pestering companies like AMD/ATI
> directly about poor linux support of their drivers.
>
> http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=121
>
> Rat
Hi All,
A recent post on Michael Larabel's blog suggests that linux users are
taking an incorrect approach by pestering companies like AMD/ATI
directly about poor linux support of their drivers.
http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=121
Rather, Michael suggests we should contact the O
