My Duh Moment with Crusoe’s Longrun
I’ve been using a Sharp
Actius for those times when I need Windows XP or when I want to
travel light. But I’ve been frustrated by my apparent lack of ability to
control LongRun’s power management behavior. I recently found some utilities that let me see
the CPU speed, and it cemented my frustration: when I unplugged the
power adapter, I got a flat 300MHz.
Well, this morning I was messing around with the Control Panel Power
settings, and set it from “Max Battery” to “Portable/Laptop”, and even
when unplugged, I found it was speeding up to 1GHz when it needed it.
All this time, I thought that the Power Options control panel only
controlled the timers (sleep, display off, and disk spindown).