Power Patches

2004-01-01 Thread M. Warner Losh
John Baldwin, Nate and I are putting the final touches on the power/resource patches. Please try them out and let me know how well they work for you. http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/power.20040101.diff These patches do the following: 1) reserves resources on child enumeration. This

Re: utility to set idle timeout on ata drives

2004-01-01 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Bruce Cran wrote: > If people are interested I can add more power management features > and possibly create a package/port of it. It it really necessary to use a configure script and associated junk to build a utility that is less than 500 lines of code? -- 10 40 80 C0 00 FF

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2004-01-01 Thread Don Lewis
A few more data points: System 1 (FreeBSD 4-STABLE) Pentium II 400 Asus P2B-LS motherboard (fxp + aic7890 Ultra2 SCSI on board) 384 MB ECC RAM Matrox G20 Floppy Seagate ST336737LW Seagate ST39173LW Plextor PX-R412C CD-R Tandberg SLR-5 Floppy Supermicro Case with lots of fans

Re: Update: PR bin/60636

2004-01-01 Thread Don Lewis
On 29 Dec, Jason Slagle wrote: > > So I'm not the only one? > > After submitting a single PR, I started getting innudated with klez > emails. 12+ a day, to an account that had never received one. > > Me thinks it's time to obscure the emails somehow. That might not help. I would think that it

utility to set idle timeout on ata drives

2004-01-01 Thread Bruce Cran
I've been putting together a router/gateway box for my network, but had been wanting to spin down the hard drives to reduce the noise of the box. I've put together a page which I think might be useful for people putting together router machines as well as laptop users - it's at http://www.cran.or

Re: logitech cordless optical mouse problems...

2004-01-01 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Yes, but the keyboard mouse I mentioned is working without any resets in Linux and Windows. So it cant be faulty hardware Evren On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Peter Dufault wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2003, at 11:31 AM, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > The funny thing is that this works in Windows and Linux. So ho