Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, b.n. wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: > > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: > >>> 5. Sometimes a BIOS update helps... > >> > >> Well, if it's a BIOS issue, OS X works around it? > > > > I'd not be surprised if it did. Windows drivers work around buggy > > BIO

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-20 Thread b.n.
Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: > >>> 5. Sometimes a BIOS update helps... >> Well, if it's a BIOS issue, OS X works around it? > > I'd not be surprised if it did. Windows drivers work around buggy BIOSes > all the time. Right. So, how can I know it? When I

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-20 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: > > 5. Sometimes a BIOS update helps... > > Well, if it's a BIOS issue, OS X works around it? I'd not be surprised if it did. Windows drivers work around buggy BIOSes all the time. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, b.n. wrote: > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: > >> Florian Philipp ha scritto: > >>> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: > >>> 1. Use laptop-mode if you don't do it by now. Really nice even > >>> without its delayed di

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: >> Florian Philipp ha scritto: >>> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: >>> 1. Use laptop-mode if you don't do it by now. Really nice even >>> without its delayed disk write feature. >> Er, I already use it. I wrote it,

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: > Florian Philipp ha scritto: > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: > > 1. Use laptop-mode if you don't do it by now. Really nice even > > without its delayed disk write feature. > > Er, I already use it. I wrote it, in fact. :) Dude, you just

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread b.n.
Florian Philipp ha scritto: > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: > 1. Use laptop-mode if you don't do it by now. Really nice even without > its delayed disk write feature. Er, I already use it. I wrote it, in fact. :) > 2. Displays are by far the biggest energy consumers. Lower its >

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: > Ritesh Kumar ha scritto: > > On Feb 19, 2008 12:09 PM, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:28 +0100, b.n. wrote: > > > Lowe Schmidt ha scritto: > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > I'm pla

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread b.n.
Ritesh Kumar ha scritto: > On Feb 19, 2008 12:09 PM, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:28 +0100, b.n. wrote: > > Lowe Schmidt ha scritto: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I'm planning on buying myself a MacBook and I'm just wondering > if any

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread Ritesh Kumar
On Feb 19, 2008 12:09 PM, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:28 +0100, b.n. wrote: > > Lowe Schmidt ha scritto: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I'm planning on buying myself a MacBook and I'm just wondering if > anyone > > > knows how many hours I will get out of it if I

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:28 +0100, b.n. wrote: > Lowe Schmidt ha scritto: > > Hi. > > > > I'm planning on buying myself a MacBook and I'm just wondering if anyone > > knows how many hours I will get out of it if I run Gentoo. I mainly use > > a bunch > > of terminals, gvim and some lightweigth gt

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread b.n.
Lowe Schmidt ha scritto: > Hi. > > I'm planning on buying myself a MacBook and I'm just wondering if anyone > knows how many hours I will get out of it if I run Gentoo. I mainly use > a bunch > of terminals, gvim and some lightweigth gtk app so nothing heavy going on. > > All input appreciated M

[gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-15 Thread Lowe Schmidt
Hi. I'm planning on buying myself a MacBook and I'm just wondering if anyone knows how many hours I will get out of it if I run Gentoo. I mainly use a bunch of terminals, gvim and some lightweigth gtk app so nothing heavy going on. All input appreciated /Lowe -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org m