This is something someone said on the Ubuntu MacBook Pro Santa Rosa (rev 3) forums:
------------------- >From a power aspect, in testing yesterday, I was idling at about 24 watts. I was at 30 with nv or vesa. Idle temp with nvidia was down to 51 degrees. I ended up with 2 hours and 23 minutes before shutdown on battery BUT I worked it pretty good...compiled a few things, looked at youtube a bit, AND BURNED A DVD! Burning the DVD pushed power up to like 35 watts! 2.5 hours under normal easy use should be no issue at all. Not great, but better and in line with what I see in Vista. During all of this time, Beryl was running and I was playing with it. I don't think the fans ever kicked up to be honest. Beryl doesn't seem to be adding much of a load to the system at all. ----------------- Soeren, is your C1D similar or is this really an nvidia thing? Have you tried Beryl/Compiz? Even the the avivo drivers support power modes and 3d, if their performance is comparable to the R300 open source drivers then I'm worried Beryl/Compiz might still end up using the CPU a lot which means it will heat up the machine. My hope is still to one day use this machine with Linux and Compiz and have it at least be quiet and not too hot when connected to power. If it could also get a reasonable battery life that would be great. Sheer On 7/26/07, Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:54 +0200, gimli wrote: > > Yes. The driver is now usable. Fully 3D and 2D accel ( nvidia ). > > The next nvidia driver should contain a fix for the Macbook's. > > what is the battery life of that machine and did you give powertop a go? > > Soeren > > > cu > > > > Edgar ( gimli ) Hucek > > > > Jan Kuenstler schrieb: > > > So I guess that are great news. > > > Does this mean you have a fully hardware accelerated X ? I will go and > > > buy a rev3-one. > > > > > > > > > On 7/26/07, gimli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I made a second way to enable the nvidia binary driver > > >> on the Macbook Pro V3. The attached patch is for > > >> the nvidia binary kernel driver. > > >> > > >> happy penguin > > >> > > >> Edgar ( gimli ) Hucek > > >> > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > >> Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > > >> Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > > >> Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Mactel-linux-devel mailing list > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-devel > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > > > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > > > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > > > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
