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 fans are much more active. I think they come on at a much lower temperature than they do in OS X (in OS X the CPUs have to get _very_ hot before the fans ever kick in). 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 my processors are idling at even a few percent (because of some stupid javascript webpage) then the battery life is much reduced. Is it possible that there's just too much going on in the background in Linux? It might be useful if someone with a core duo tries running their machine in a minimal mode (very few background processes) and GPU throttled and sees if they can get better power usage. I've asked Apple to release the SMC specs but I don't know if they will because it seems that they claim on their webpage that even in windows the battery life will be reduced meaning that they didn't write SMC drivers for windows. Perhaps this is part of the hardware that they want to keep secret. cheers, Sheer On 3/22/07, Kai Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * 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 be interesting though. > > We should try it and ask them! I feel, you are qualified to ask them for > support for the SMC specs. > > The applesmc features are fine, but we all experience differences to the > OSX one. I bought Hardwaremonitor, a tool which monitors a huge amount > of sensors. You can also extract these statistics to CSV. I hope to get > more informations, how temperatures, CPU speeds, fan speeds are related. > > (My assumption is, the SMC kext does something similiar powernowd does > with a lot more sensors to consider. On a first look it seems the CPU > is far more often at the lowest 1000 Mhz as with the ondemand or > powersave governor under Linux.) > > Regards > Kai > -- > * http://www.glorybox.de/ > PGP 1024D/594D4132 B693 5073 013F 7F56 5DCC D9C2 E6B5 448C 594D 4132 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
