Rene Schickbauer wrote: > Hi! > >> I think this is a very nice idea, especially the TFT backlight part. It >> also might be useful to adjust the WiFi transmit power level according >> to battery state. That can also save some power, especially on >> portables. > > Yes, changing the transmit power would be possible. Although adjusting the > transmit power via script on a *mobile* computer is likely to get the user > offline rather quickly. > > On the other hand, powerd would just run a script. This script could start a > user-written daemon to continually adjust power level.. and when ac is > plugged in again, the script kills that daemon. I sincerely doubt that would > save you any amount of power worth mentioning, though but may give you > additional troubles. But maybe you could restrict an a/b/g card to b/g or a > and thus save some power. FWIW, changing transmit power on my Intel 4965 based system made zero difference to overall power consumption. Regards, AragonReceived on Mon Jul 06 2009 - 10:55:38 UTC
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