From: "Frank Vos" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:00:10 +0200 (CEST)
Reply-To: "Frank Vos" <frankvos@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] looking for a laptop

Hello Mark,
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:45:05 -0400, madodel wrote:

>Same experience here with my T61.  I still prefer my T42p because of a few 
>things.  eCS 2.0 RC6a installed fine on to the T61.  And as you stated 
>Sound works with Paul's HDA Uniaud 1.9.12 driver (though you have to close 
>anything that uses sound before starting something else that requires sound 
>or I get a message that the device is locked). I only use WiFi which works 
>great with GenMac.  With ACPI I get dual CPU support and power off but 
>battery power usage is poor (only an hour unless you use the hacked kernel 
>from ecomstation.ru which has extra halts in it, while I get about 3.5-4 
>hours on my T42p). 
Did you try the CPUspeed utility?
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/system/cpuspeed1.4.zip
With it I can throttle down both cores of my R60, so it runs a lot longer
on the battery. I even use it when my laptop is conected to the wire, so
it runs a lot cooler.

Frank