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  1. Bug #52852
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Comment 15 for bug 52852

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martinbures (needemesleepe) wrote :

I have a fully updated Edgy system and it gets very hot when running idle and I get about 1/2 the battery life of what I can expect in OS X. I found this and tried it:

http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook

CPU frequency scaling is governed by SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO kernel module.

echo speedstep_centrino >> /etc/modules

So I tried it. It seems to make a bit of a difference. It definitely cooled the thing down in my lap a little bit. I would say that I probably get an extra 30 minutes of run time.